Healthcare Facilities Redesign Using Multicriteria Decision-Making: Fuzzy TOPSIS and Graph Heuristic Theories
Table 12
Extracted adjacency matrix for the Emergency Department at hospital (I) after the reallocation process.
Area
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
TCR
Order
1
Entrance
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
4
3
2
Equipment and supply storage
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
6
3
Staff lounge
0
0
0
0.5
1.5
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
4
Public waiting area
0
0
0
0
2
0
1.5
1
1
1
1
7.5
1
5
Diagnostic service areas
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
6
Patient toilet
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
1
0
0
0
5
2
7
Shower room
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
8
8
Airborne infection isolation (AII) room
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
9
Multiple-bed treatment room (s)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
5
10
Reception, triage, and control station
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
11
A trauma/resuscitation room (s)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
11
Layout score before applying the reallocation proposed algorithm = 18. Layout score after applying reallocation proposed algorithm = 24.75 that raised by 27%. and so on for every emergency department in the evaluated hospitals.
