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Evaluation method of medical service system based on DEMATEL and the information entropy: A case study of hypertension diagnosis and treatment in China

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  • Rui Miao
  • Xiaohao Xiang
  • Qi Wu
  • Zhibin Jiang

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Precise and reasonable evaluation of the multi-attribute value of medical system is the basis for hospitals to implement total quality management. Excellent medical system is necessary as a part of modern urban governance. However, most of medical value evaluation work relies on scale and artificial scoring at present, lacking in objectivity. Therefore, a scientific and comprehensive medical value evaluation system is needed urgently to give full play to the guiding role of value evaluation and promote the improvement of the medical service system. In this study, DEMATEL and information entropy are used to quantify the degree of mutual influence between system indicators and the differences in medical market performance respectively, so as to obtain the objective index weight. Hypertension has the highest incidence in the whole chronic disease system, which seriously affects people's daily life. Based on the existing hypertension diagnosis and treatment index system, a comprehensive and objective evaluation model is established to evaluate the hypertension diagnosis and treatment behaviors of different medical institutions, which achieves good result. This method has effectively improved the relative deficiency of one-sided subjective evaluation and has a great guiding significance for the comparison of treatment in departments and the economical use of medical resources.

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  • Rui Miao & Xiaohao Xiang & Qi Wu & Zhibin Jiang, 2020. "Evaluation method of medical service system based on DEMATEL and the information entropy: A case study of hypertension diagnosis and treatment in China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(12), pages 1-15, December.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243832
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