Hospital service quality evaluation: A fuzzy preference relation approach

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 517-522

  Chang, Tsung Han ^a  

^a KAO YUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

consistent reciprocal additive transitivity; fuzzy preferece relations; hospital service quality; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENT RECIPROCAL ADDITIVE TRANSITIVITY; EVALUATION CRITERIA; FUZZY PREFERECE RELATIONS; FUZZY PREFERENCE RELATIONS; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOSPITAL SERVICE QUALITY; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; IMPORTANCE WEIGHTS; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE RATINGS; SERVICE QUALITY; SOUTHERN TAIWAN;

FUZZY SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 80053075811     PISSN: 10987584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FUZZY.2011.6007350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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