Comparative Study of AHP and Fuzzy AHP for Ranking of Medicinal Drugs

摘要

Evaluation of healthcare policies and taking decisions with regard to complex problems require assessments at many levels and by a group of experts. This paper studies the selection criteria and their weights for the five drugs for metastatic colorectal cancer treatment. A comparative value assessment of the drugs was conducted with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (Fuzzy AHP) techniques of multi-criteria decision making. The ranking scores of all the alternative drugs have been examined and the implications of the vagueness in the decision making have been scrutinized for both the AHP and Fuzzy AHP.