PMID- 38300703 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20240218 IS - 2291-9694 (Print) IS - 2291-9694 (Electronic) VI - 12 DP - 2024 Feb 1 TI - Multicriteria Decision-Making in Diabetes Management and Decision Support: Systematic Review. PG - e47701 LID - 10.2196/47701 [doi] LID - e47701 AB - BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus prevalence is increasing among adults and children around the world. Diabetes care is complex; examining the diet, type of medication, diabetes recognition, and willingness to use self-management tools are just a few of the challenges faced by diabetes clinicians who should make decisions about them. Making the appropriate decisions will reduce the cost of treatment, decrease the mortality rate of diabetes, and improve the life quality of patients with diabetes. Effective decision-making is within the realm of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. OBJECTIVE: The central objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and applicability of MCDM methods and then introduce a novel categorization framework for their use in this field. METHODS: The literature search was focused on publications from 2003 to 2023. Finally, by applying the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) method, 63 articles were selected and examined. RESULTS: The findings reveal that the use of MCDM methods in diabetes research can be categorized into 6 distinct groups: the selection of diabetes medications (19 publications), diabetes diagnosis (12 publications), meal recommendations (8 publications), diabetes management (14 publications), diabetes complication (7 publications), and estimation of diabetes prevalence (3 publications). CONCLUSIONS: Our review showed a significant portion of the MCDM literature on diabetes. The research highlights the benefits of using MCDM techniques, which are practical and effective for a variety of diabetes challenges. CI - (c)Tahmineh Aldaghi, Jan Muzik. Originally published in JMIR Medical Informatics (https://medinform.jmir.org), 01.02.2024. FAU - Aldaghi, Tahmineh AU - Aldaghi T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7949-4984 AD - Spin-off Companies and Research Results Commercialization Center, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. FAU - Muzik, Jan AU - Muzik J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4851-7899 AD - Department of Information and Communication Technologies in Medicine, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20240201 PL - Canada TA - JMIR Med Inform JT - JMIR medical informatics JID - 101645109 PMC - PMC10870205 OTO - NOTNLM OT - analytical hierarchy process OT - blood sugar OT - decision making OT - decision support OT - diabetes OT - diabetes management OT - diabetes recognition OT - diabetic OT - digital health tool OT - glucose OT - glucose management OT - multi-criteria decision making OT - review methodology OT - self-management OT - systematic review OT - technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution COIS- Conflicts of Interest: None declared. EDAT- 2024/02/01 12:42 MHDA- 2024/02/01 12:43 PMCR- 2024/02/01 CRDT- 2024/02/01 11:54 PHST- 2023/03/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/12/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/10/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2024/02/01 12:43 [medline] PHST- 2024/02/01 12:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2024/02/01 11:54 [entrez] PHST- 2024/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - v12i1e47701 [pii] AID - 10.2196/47701 [doi] PST - epublish SO - JMIR Med Inform. 2024 Feb 1;12:e47701. doi: 10.2196/47701.