Comparative Evaluation of the Treatment of COVID-19 with Multicriteria Decision-Making Techniques

Table 1

Criteria of the COVID-19 treatment options and their importance weights with fuzzy linguistic scale.

Linguistic scale for evaluation	Triangular fuzzy scale	Importance ratings of criteria
Very high (VH)	(0.75, 1, 1)	Side effects, regime cost, number of tablets, dose frequency, treatment duration, plasma stability, plasma turnover, time of suppression, practicability, drug-drug interaction, compliance, fever, pneumonia, intensive care, organ failure, macrophage activation syndrome, hemophagocytic syndrome
Important (H)	(0.50, 0.75, 1)	Age, pregnancy, GFR
Medium (M)		Intravenous form, oral form, false prescription
Low (L)		Inefficient drug combination
Very low (VL)		-