Review Article

Hospital Location Selection: A Systematic Literature Review on Methodologies and Applications

Table 2

The differences between the six MCDM environments used or likely to be used in hospital location selection.

Type of MCDM environmentData typeConsiders information uncertaintyMeasure the degree of membership and nonmembershipAmount of uncertainty information covered

Classical MCDMCrispNoNoLow
Grey MCDMGrey numbersYesNoLow
General fuzzy MCDMFuzzy numbersYesNoLow
Intuitionistic fuzzy MCDMFuzzy numbersYesYesLow
Pythagorean fuzzy MCDMFuzzy numbersYesYesMedium
Fermatean fuzzy MCDMFuzzy numbersYesYesHigh