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The development and evaluation of a fuzzy logic expert system for renal transplantation assignment: Is this a useful tool?

Abstract

Allocating donor kidneys to patients is a complex, multicriteria decision-making problem which involves not only medical, but also ethical and political issues. In this paper, a fuzzy logic expert system approach was proposed as an innovative way to deal with the vagueness and complexity faced by medical doctors in kidney allocation decision making. A pilot fuzzy logic expert system for kidney allocation was developed and evaluated in …

Authors

Yuan Y; Feldhamer S; Gafni A; Fyfe F; Ludwin D

Journal

European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 142, No. 1, pp. 152–173

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

October 2002

DOI

10.1016/s0377-2217(01)00271-5

ISSN

0377-2217