A computer-based approach for data analyzing in hospital's health-care waste management sector by developing an index using consensus-based fuzzy multi-criteria group decision-making models.

Journal: International journal of medical informatics
Published Date: Oct 1, 2018

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Proper Health-Care Waste Management (HCWM) and integrated documentation in this sector of hospitals require analyzing massive data collected by hospital's health experts. This study presented a quantitative software-based index to assess the HCWM process performance by integrating ontology-based Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making techniques and fuzzy modeling that were coupled with data mining. This framework represented the Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) types of Process Mining in which a user-friendly software namely Group Fuzzy Decision-Making (GFDM) was employed for index calculation.

Authors

  • Mohammad Ali Baghapour
    Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Razi St, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: baghapour@sums.ac.ir.
  • Mohammad Reza Shooshtarian
    Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Larestan University of Medical Sciences, Larestan, Iran; Student Research Committee, Larestan University of Medical Sciences, Larestan, Iran. Electronic address: mrshooshtarian@yahoo.com.
  • Mohammad Reza Javaheri
    Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Razi St, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: m_reza_jh@yahoo.com.
  • Sina Dehghanifard
    Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Razi St, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: s_i_n_a_h@yahoo.com.
  • Razieh Sefidkar
    Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Razi St, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: rozisefidkar@yahoo.com.
  • Amir Fadaei Nobandegani
    Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Razi St, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: amirfadaei66@gmail.com.

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