Healthcare Facilities Redesign Using Multicriteria Decision-Making: Fuzzy TOPSIS and Graph Heuristic Theories

Table 1

Summary of the studies that used ranking methods.

Study	Used algorithms
	TOPSIS	MOORA	VIKOR	PROMETHEE	SAW	COMET	CODAS	SIMUS	CODAS-COMET
Assessment of service quality in teaching hospitals of Yazd university of medical sciences: using multicriteria decision-making techniques [8]	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
A healthcare facility location selection problem with fuzzy TOPSIS method for a regional hospital [9]	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Assessment of performance in teaching hospitals: using multicriteria decision-making techniques [10]	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Beheshtinia. Evaluating and prioritizing hospital service quality [11]	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Determination of hospital rank by using the technique for order preference by similiarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and multiobjective optimization on the basis of ratio analysis (MOORA) [12]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Multiobjective contractor’s ranking by applying the MOORA method [13]	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Determination of hospital rank by using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and multiobjective optimization on the basis of ratio analysis (MOORA) [14]	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Hospital leanness assessment model: a fuzzy MULTI-MOORA decision-making approach [15]	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Measuring the quality of public hospitals in Croatia using a multicriteria approach [16]	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Identifying and ranking health tourism development barriers in Iran using the fuzzy VIKOR method [17]	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Implications for sustainable healthcare operations in embracing telemedicine services during a pandemic [18]	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Bastani. Ranking of Iranian provinces based on healthcare infrastructures: Before and after implementation of health transformation plan [19]	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
PROMETHEE-based analysis of HCWM challenges in the healthcare sector of Odisha [20]	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Improving decision-making and management of hospital resources: an application of the PROMETHEE II method in an emergency department [21]	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Stability of hospital rankings [22]	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Ranking of hospitals in the case of COVID-19 outbreak: a new integrated approach using patient satisfaction criteria [23]	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The COMET method: the first MCDA method completely resistant to rank reversal paradox [24]	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
The COMET rating procedure in practice: some conclusions [25]	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Effects of the selection of characteristic values on the accuracy of results in the COMET method [26]	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
A novel fuzzy SIMUS multicriteria decision-making method. An application in railway passenger transport planning [27]	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
A new combinative distance-based assessment (CODAS) method for multicriteria decision-making [28]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Green electricity generation assessment using the CODAS-COMET method [29]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes