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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Identification of Key Performance Indicators for Hospital Management Using an Extended Hesitant Linguistic DEMATEL Approach.

Ling Zhang, Ran Liu, Shan Jiang, Gang Luo, Hu-Chen Liu

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Ling ZhangFaculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.
Ran LiuSchool of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Shan JiangSchool of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Gang LuoSILC Business School, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Hu-Chen LiuCollege of Economics and Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, China.

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Abstract

Performance analysis is of great significance to increase the operational efficiency of healthcare organizations. Healthcare performance is influenced by numerous indicators, but it is unrealistic for administrators to improve all of them due to the restriction of resources. To solve this problem, we integrated double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (DHHFLTSs) with the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and proposed a DHHFL- DEMATEL method to identify key performance indicators (KPIs) in healthcare management. For the developed approach, the judgments of experts on the inter-relationships among indicators were represented by DHHFLTSs, and a novel combination weighting approach was proposed to obtain experts' weights in line with hesitant degree and consensus degree. Then, the normal DEMATEL method was extended and used for examining the cause and effect relationships between indicators; the technique for the order of preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) method was utilized to generate the ranking of performance indicators. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed DHHFL-DEMATEL approach were illustrated by a practical example in a rehabilitation hospital.

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DEMATEL techniquedouble hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sethealthcare managementkey performance indicatorTOPSIS method

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PMCPMC7151015

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