Research Article

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

Table 5

Survey’s structure: standards and criteria.

StandardsCriteriaSubcriteria

AIA (American Institution of Architecture) [41]Guidelines for design and construction of healthcare facilitiesSpaces, finishing, doors, and windows design
FGI (Facility Guideline Institution) [41]Guidelines for design and construction of healthcare facilitiesSpaces, finishing, doors, and windows design
JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) [42]Planning, design, construction of healthcare facilitiesSpaces, finishing, doors, and windows design
ICRA (Infection Control Risk Assessment) [43]Focuses on risk reduction from infection, acts through phases of facility planning, design, construction, renovation, facility maintenance, and coordinates and weighs knowledge about infection, infectious agents, and care environment, permitting the organization to anticipate the potential impactNumber, location, and type of airborne infection isolation and protective environment rooms, location of special ventilation and filtration, such as emergency department waiting and intake areas., air handling, and ventilation needs in surgical services, airborne infection isolation and protective environment rooms, laboratories, local exhaust systems for hazardous agents, and other special areas, water systems to limit Legionella sp. And other waterborne opportunistic pathogens, finishes, and surfaces
ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineering) [42]Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems design and constructionHeating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration criteria
HTM 2022 (Health Technical Memorandum) [44, 45]Covers piped medical gases, medical compressed air, and medical vacuum installations and apply to all medical gas pipeline systems installed on healthcare premisesMedical gases distribution, piping distribution criteria