Decision support model for the patient admission scheduling problem based on picture fuzzy aggregation information and TOPSIS methodology

Abstract

Health care systems around the world do not have sufficient medical services to immediately offer elective (e.g., scheduled or non-emergency) services to all patients. The goal of patient admission scheduling (PAS) as a complicated decision making issue is to allocate a group of patients to a limited number of resources such as rooms, time slots, and beds based on a set of preset restrictions such as illness severity, waiting time, and disease categories. This is a crucial issue with multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM). In order to address this issue, we first conduct an assessment of the admission process and gather four (4) aspects that influence patient admission and design a set of criteria. Even while many of these indicators may be accurately captured by the picture fuzzy set, we use an advanced MCGDM approach that incorporates generalized aggregation to analyze patients' hospitalization. Finally, numerical real-world applications of PAS are offered to illustrate the validity of the suggested technique. The advantages of the proposed approaches are also examined by comparing them to various existing decision methods. The proposed technique has been proved to assist hospitals in managing patient admissions in a flexible manner.