Mohamed Abdel-Basset1, Abduallah Gamal1, Rehab Mohamed1, Mohamed Abouhawwash2,3,*, Abdulwahab Almutairi4, Osama M. ELkomy1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 4053-4073, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020048
- 27 September 2021
Abstract There are several challenges that hospitals are facing according to the emergency department (ED). The main two issues are department capacity and lead time. However, the lack of consensus on performance criteria to evaluate ED increases the complication of this process. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the efficiency of the emergency department in 20 Egyptian hospitals (12 private and 8 general hospitals) based on 13 performance metrics. This research suggests an integrated evaluation model assess ED under a framework of plithogenic theory. The proposed framework addressed uncertainty and ambiguity in information with an efficient… More >