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Table 4 Criteria for selecting the best organizational modalities in hospitals

From: Selecting the most suitable organizational structure for hospitals: an integrated fuzzy FUCOM-MARCOS method

Criteria

Definition

References

C1

Access

Availability of services for recipients of health services and their ability of patients to receive these services

[42,43,44,45]

C2

Hospital admissions

The number of patients admitted by the hospital during a specific period

[46,47,48]

C3

Average Length of Stay(ALOS)

The number of days the patient spends in the hospital since admission is divided by the number of people discharged (including deaths during the year)

[48,49,50]

C4

Outpatient visits

The number of outpatients referred to the hospital during a specific period

[51, 52]

C5

Bed occupancy rate

The number of beds used by the hospital in a certain period compared to all the beds in the hospital

[52, 53]

C6

Income

The amount of financial income earned by the hospital during a certain period

[45, 48, 54,55,56,57,58,59]

C7

Number of personnel

Number of staff in the hospital

[61,62,63]

C8

Status of equipment

The level of relative quality and modernity of the hospital equipment

[4, 64]

C9

Patient satisfaction

The level of patients' satisfaction with the services received from the hospital

[65, 66]

C10

Employee satisfaction

The level of satisfaction of hospital staff from the organizational unit in which they are employed

[67,68,69]