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An Overview of the Applications of BWM in Health

In: Advances in Best-Worst Method

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  • Pelin Gulum Tas

    (Delft University of Technology)

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This article presents an overview of the Best-Worst Method (BWM) applications in health and gives observations and concluding remarks about reviewed articles. BWM is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method developed to evaluate alternatives that a group of criteria characterizes. It has attracted the attention of many researchers from different disciplines. Sixty articles that applied BWM or one of the variants have been reviewed to provide an overview of the applications of BWM in the area of health. Investigated studies are divided into six groups: healthcare system evaluation studies, hospitals, performance and service quality studies, diagnosing and treatment-related studies, healthcare supply chain studies, healthcare support systems applications and occupational health and safety studies. Each article is analyzed in terms of specific application area in health, motivation of the study, integration of the BWM with other methods, if any, and essential application findings for both academicians and practitioners. With the motivation of giving a general idea of BWM applications in health, the impressions obtained and suggestions are presented at the end. The findings indicate that BWM is a favourable method for health-related decision-making problems, and it will be preferred more in health applications in the future due to its ability to adapt to other methods, practicality and reliable results.

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  • Pelin Gulum Tas, 2023. "An Overview of the Applications of BWM in Health," Lecture Notes in Operations Research, in: Jafar Rezaei & Matteo Brunelli & Majid Mohammadi (ed.), Advances in Best-Worst Method, pages 1-18, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnopch:978-3-031-24816-0_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24816-0_1
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