title: [Novel dynamic TOPSIS method in evaluation for quality of medical care].
abstract: The quality of medical care shows characteristics of dynamic state with changes in time. However, many of appraisal and evaluation projects usually keep on the status of "past" or "present". Most of these models are static evaluation approach. In this study, besides the "past" and "present" status, we took one step further to unveil the future development trends of the medical therapeutical effects. Based on the index value and index increment, a dynamic TOPSIS method is presented. This method pays attention to both transverse and lengthwise information and can not only perform the evaluation on each time section but also can make the final dynamic evaluation. We applied this new method to the evaluation of quality of medical care, which was proved to be effective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, China.
authors.forename: Yiren
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Lifeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Zhenqiu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*