Towards blockchain-based hospital waste management systems; applications and future trends

SMH Bamakan, P Malekinejad, M Ziaeian - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Effective hospital waste management (HWM) has become a significant environmental and
green healthcare domain issue. In this regard, recent outstanding technological advances in …

Blockchain for supply chain quality management: challenges and opportunities in context of open manufacturing and industrial internet of things

J Li, A Maiti, M Springer, T Gray - International Journal of Computer …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In global Supply Chain Quality Management (SCQM), there are methods to
ensure continuity of supply, at appropriate prices while meeting quality standards. But they …

Sustainable supplier selection in healthcare industries using a new MCDM method: Measurement of alternatives and ranking according to COmpromise solution …

Ž Stević, D Pamučar, A Puška, P Chatterjee - Computers & industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods are very useful tools for daily decision-
making in different fields. In addition, determining an acceptable solution with respect to …

[HTML][HTML] Supplier selection in healthcare supply chain management during the COVID-19 pandemic: a novel fuzzy rough decision-making approach

D Pamucar, AE Torkayesh, S Biswas - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
Due to the high necessity of medical face masks and face shields during the COVID-19
pandemic, healthcare centers dealing with infected patients have faced serious challenges …

Municipal solid waste generation, composition, and management: the global scenario

KD Sharma, S Jain - Social responsibility journal, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose Due to the increasing population and prosperity, the generation rate of municipal
solid waste (MSW) has increased significantly, resulting in serious problems on public …

Evaluating and selecting sustainable logistics service providers for medical waste disposal treatment in the healthcare industry

ÖF Görçün, A Aytekin, S Korucuk… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Health institutes are structurally growing depending on the population increase and
escalating demands for health services. As a negative result, the health industry produces …

Assessment and comparison of various MCDM approaches in the selection of manufacturing process

AM Ghaleb, H Kaid, A Alsamhan… - Advances in Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The selection of manufacturing processes for a given application is a complex problem of
multicriteria decision‐making although there have been several different approaches that …

[HTML][HTML] A decision support system for classifying supplier selection criteria using machine learning and random forest approach

MR Ali, SMA Nipu, SA Khan - Decision Analytics Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Supplier selection is an important process in supply chain management that sets a
foundation for a long-term partnership with suppliers that can greatly contribute to the …

Safe distance-based vehicle routing problem: Medical waste collection case study in COVID-19 pandemic

E Eren, UR Tuzkaya - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In addition to the increasing population and rapid urbanization, the amount and variety of
medical waste are rapidly increasing due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] Locating a disinfection facility for hazardous healthcare waste in the COVID-19 era: a novel approach based on Fermatean fuzzy ITARA-MARCOS and …

V Simic, A Ebadi Torkayesh… - Annals of Operations …, 2023 - Springer
Hazardous healthcare waste (HCW) management system is one of the most critical urban
systems affected by the COVID-19 pandemic due to the increase in waste generation rate in …