Assessing Stakeholders Preferences About Healthcare Facility Location Using FITradeoff Method

This work aims to present a multiple criteria group decision model to locate healthcare facilities, using additive model with Flexible and Interactive Tradeoff (FITradeoff) elicitation method for scale constants of the criteria. Sitting complex facilities, such as hospitals, is a multidimensional decision problem due to the several issues to be taken into account and also regarding the different opinions of stakeholders that should be involved. The problem addressed here is the location of a new large healthcare facility in Lombardy Region, Italy. FITradeoff is an easy tool for decision makers, because it requires less effort from the DMs compared to other elicitation methods, and thus it is expected to have less inconsistency during the elicitation process.