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VIKOR Method with Enhanced Accuracy for Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Healthcare Management

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Višekriterijumsko kompromisno rangiranje (VIKOR) method is one of the commonly used multi criteria decision making (MCDM) methods for improving the quality of decision making. VIKOR has an advantage in providing a ranking procedure for positive attributes and negative attributes when it is used and examined in decision support. However, we noticed that this method may failed to support an objective result inmedical field because most medical data have normal reference ranges (e.g., for normally distributed data: \(NRR \in [\mu \pm 1.96\sigma ]\)), this limitation shows a negative effect on the acceptance of it as an effective decision supporting method in medical decision making. This paper proposes an improved VIKOR method with enhanced accuracy (ea-VIKOR) to make it suitable for such data in medical field by introducing a new data normalization method taking the original distance to the normal reference range (ODNRR) into account. In addition, an experimental example was presented to demonstrate efficiency and feasibility of the ea-VIKOR method, the results demonstrate the abilityof ea-VIKOR to deal with moderate data and support the decision making in healthcare care management. Forthis reason, the ea-VIKOR should be considered for use as a decision support tool for future study.

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Zeng, QL., Li, DD. & Yang, YB. VIKOR Method with Enhanced Accuracy for Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Healthcare Management. J Med Syst 37, 9908 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-012-9908-1

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