Evaluation of criteria and COVID-19 patients for intensive care unit admission in the era of pandemic: A multi-criteria decision making approach.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed
; 209: 106348, 2021 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1347556
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:
The COVID-19 pandemic results in an intense flow of patients to hospitals especially to the intensive care units (ICUs) to be treated. The ICUs will therefore be confronted with a massive influx of patients (e.g. Spain and Italy). However, if the number of patients is higher than the resources available in ICUs, rationing decisions such as determining and evaluating the criteria for ICU admission becomes essential. In this case, the decision of which patients will be admitted to the ICUs may put significant pressure on healthcare personnel. The goal of this paper is to determine the criteria to be used in the decision of admission of COVID-19 patients to the ICUs.METHODS:
A three-step methodology is applied. In the first step, the evaluation criteria are determined, and then the criteria are prioritized using a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) in an uncertain and multiple-criteria environment choice. Finally, COVID-19 patients are ranked using the Multi-Objective Optimization Method by Ratio Analysis to find out which patient is more urgent.RESULTS:
According to experts' evaluation of ICU admission criteria, "increment of >2 in SOFA score" seems the most dominant factor among others. The proposed methodology is tested on 10 anonymous COVID-19 positive patients being treated in a public hospital and the ICU admission results are discussed.CONCLUSIONS:
Obtained priorities and ranking is in line with the hospitals' behavior that potentially depicts the usefulness and validity of the proposed approach.Keywords
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pandemics
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Comput Methods Programs Biomed
Journal subject:
Medical Informatics
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.cmpb.2021.106348
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