Evaluation of healthcare waste treatment/disposal alternatives by using multi-criteria decision-making techniques

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 141-149

  Özkan, Aysun ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

analytic network process (ANP); ELECTRE III; Healthcare waste management; multi criteria decision making; off site sterilization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; CURRENT STATUS; ELECTRE; ELECTRE III; HEALTHCARE WASTE MANAGEMENT; HEALTHCARE WASTES; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; POINT OF VIEWS; PRIORITIZATION; STERILIZATION TECHNIQUES;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INCINERATION; STERILIZATION (CLEANING);

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INCINERATION; INFECTIVITY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITIZATION; RANKING; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL WASTE; INCINERATION; LANDFILL; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; OFF SITE STERILIZATION; ON SITE STERILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; INCINERATION; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; MICROWAVES; STERILIZATION; TURKEY;

TURKEY;

EID: 84874087441     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X12471578     Document Type: Article

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