Table 2.

Description of MCDM studies in prioritising other fields.

Ref.	Aim of the study	Method used	Criteria used	Case study
[37]	Selection and evaluation of mHealth applications	AHP, fuzzy TOPSIS	User satisfaction, quality of information, compatibility, functionality, security, ease of access, responsiveness, and ease of learning and understanding	Numerical case example for different mHealth applications
[38]	settlement solution Drawing for an MAGDM problem through HFLTSs	VIKOR, TOPSIS	public approval, waste residuals, released-with-effects of health, reliability, treatment-usefulness, Net-cost-per-tonne	Example rely on the valuation of a health-care waste disposal management system defined in Shanghai, China case study [47]
[39]	Experimental guide on hospital services’ performance to estimate performance levels' prediction	TOPSIS, Neural Networks	Inputs – TOPSIS criteria Surgical-beds, beds for clinical, life-support equipment, image diagnosis equipment, No. of nurses, No. of physicians, Total No. of professionals	Public hospitals from 92 municipalities of Rio de Janeiro, for a period from 2008 to 2013
[40]	-Vulnerability assessment of the health effects caused by climate variation -Validity of the vulnerability assessment results and the occurrence rate of cardiovascular patients	Fuzzy TOPSIS	Meteorological, air pollution, vulnerable group, vulnerable environment, disease distribution, socioeconomic-capacity, health/medical-capacity, air-pollution control	Climate and air pollution data from South Korea in 2010
[41]	Ranking variances between the TOPSIS and other MCDM approaches	TOPSIS	Combined-other-methods, year of publication, publication of journal, nationality of author	266 papers about TOPSIS applications published since 2000 in 103 journals of scholarly
[45]	Research priorities ranking for organization of military health	AHP, TOPSIS	Time priority, accordance with organizational goals, applicability and usefulness	Cross-sectional study done in 2013 (clinics of a military health organization in Iran)
[42]	efficiency estimation of the health information systems in health care services and delivery	AHP-TOPSIS	-Number of users of information systems -Data redundancy -Monthly growth of interoperability rates -Rate of return on investment -Monthly growing of the employment of data (big data) -Valuation of compliance with HIPPA principles	top 20 of the most used software solutions at the beginning of 2016 (from Electronic Health Record)
[43]	Selection of Power Plant Site of Inland Nuclear under Z‐numbers	Z -number ‐BWM, Z -number ‐DEMATEL, and Z -number ‐TOPSIS	Eco‐environment, physical geography, socio‐economics	Hunan Province of China
[44]	Rank the hotel BEER projects	Fuzzy TOPSIS-based QUALIFLEX method, (LD-PFOWA)	Project management, Project nuancing, EPC- innovation, supportable progress, measurement, verification, preparation of workable development strategy, contracting, external economics	Hotel BEER project selection problem for energy service company
[46]	Manage (Sustainable supplier selection) problems	Picture fuzzy exponential entropy, VIKOR	, environmental and social SSS evaluation criteria	Chemical manufacturing enterprise, China