PMID- 37865638
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20231102
LR  - 20231117
IS  - 2045-2322 (Electronic)
IS  - 2045-2322 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023 Oct 21
TI  - Research on the location decision-making method of emergency medical facilities 
      based on WSR.
PG  - 18011
LID - 10.1038/s41598-023-44209-0 [doi]
LID - 18011
AB  - The need for emergency medical services increased drastically during disaster 
      relief. Poor location selection of emergency medical facilities may harm the 
      interests of healthcare workers and patients, leading to unnecessary waste of 
      costs. It involves multiple stakeholders' interests, a typical multi-criteria 
      decision-making problem. Based on multiple-criteria decision-making technology, 
      most current location selection decisions methods comprehensively consider the 
      evaluation criteria of "issue" and "problem" simultaneously and establish 
      mathematical models to achieve the results. Such methods are difficult to take 
      into account the influence of different attribute factors on the final location 
      selection results in practice. Therefore, in this study, we used the WSR 
      methodology as a guide to divide the factors of location selection into "Wuli", 
      "Shili" and "Renli", and proposed the WSR methodology-based multi-criteria 
      decision-making (MCDM) framework for selecting the appropriate location for 
      emergency medical facilities. The integrated framework consists of the Entropy 
      Weight Method, Best-Worst Method, and interval type-2 fuzzy Technique for Order 
      of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) methodologies. Combined 
      with the comparative analysis of actual cases, the results under the guidance of 
      this framework were consistent with practicalities. Also, the sensitivity 
      analysis showed that the location selection ranking fluctuations were not 
      apparent with the fluctuation of criteria weights. Wherefore, the validation of 
      the proposed method's effectiveness, feasibility, and robustness was proved, 
      which provided a valuable reference for the location selection of emergency 
      medical facilities.
CI  - (c) 2023. Springer Nature Limited.
FAU - Wang, Hao
AU  - Wang H
AD  - School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China.
AD  - Key Laboratory of Cold Region Urban and Rural Human Settlement Environment 
      Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin 
      Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China.
AD  - School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 
      117548, Singapore.
FAU - Luo, Peng
AU  - Luo P
AD  - School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China. 
      pengluo@hit.edu.cn.
AD  - Key Laboratory of Cold Region Urban and Rural Human Settlement Environment 
      Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin 
      Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China. pengluo@hit.edu.cn.
FAU - Wu, Yimeng
AU  - Wu Y
AD  - School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 
      117548, Singapore.
AD  - College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20231021
PL  - England
TA  - Sci Rep
JT  - Scientific reports
JID - 101563288
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Decision Making
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
MH  - Health Facilities
PMC - PMC10590399
COIS- The authors declare no competing interests.
EDAT- 2023/10/22 00:41
MHDA- 2023/11/02 12:42
PMCR- 2023/10/21
CRDT- 2023/10/21 23:17
PHST- 2023/04/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/10/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/11/02 12:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/10/22 00:41 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/10/21 23:17 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/10/21 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-023-44209-0 [pii]
AID - 44209 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-023-44209-0 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sci Rep. 2023 Oct 21;13(1):18011. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-44209-0.