title: Analytic hierarchy process as module for productivity evaluation and decision-making of the operation theater.
abstract: The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a theory of measurement through pairwise comparisons and relies on the judgments of experts to derive priority scales, these scales that measure intangibles in relative terms. The aim of the article was to develop a model for productivity measurement of the operation theater (OT), which could be applied as a model for quality improvement and decision-making. AHP is used in this article to evolve such a model. The steps consist of identifying the critical success factors for measuring the productivity of OT, identifying subfactors that inflauence the critical factors, comparing the pairwise, deriving their relative importance and ratings, and calculating the cumulative effect according to the attributes in OT. The cumulative productivitycan be calculated by the end and can be compared Ideal productivity to measure the productive of OT in percentage fraction. Hence, the productivity could be calculated. Hence, AHP is a very useful model to measure the productivity in OT.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Abdelrahman E M
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Ezzat
authors.affiliation: Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Hesham S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Hamoud
keywords: Analytic hierarchy process; decision-making; operating theater; performance measures; productivity