2026-10-30T03:26:32Zhttps://munzur-rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net/oai/requestoai:munzur-rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net:munzur/28022026-10-28T15:30:06Zopenairecom_munzur_1col_munzur_2com_munzur_8col_munzur_154An IT2FBWM Model to Highlight the Significance of Factors Utilized in Determining Pandemic Hospital Site SelectionAycin, EjderKayapinar Kaya, SemaEcer, FatihBWMInterval type-2 fuzzy numbersIT2FBWMMCDMPandemic hospital siting factorsThe COVID-19 pandemic has spread to the world in a short time since its emergence in Wuhan, China, and mobilized international health authorities with its effects, continues its development seriously. Due to the fast spread of COVID-19, governments have made some decisions to build new temporary hospitals for patients infected with COVID-19. This situation increased the importance of the site selection process for a pandemic hospital during the current critical time. Site selection of a hospital can be considered as multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem since it includes multiple factors. This paper applies an analytical tool for evaluating the criteria of the site selection of a pandemic hospital. For this purpose, the extended best–worst method with trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy numbers (IT2FBWM) is employed to determine the importance weights of the pandemic hospital site selection criteria. The paper’s findings point out that the IT2FBWM model can help decision-makers determine the importance weights of the criteria used in the pandemic hospital siting decisions.Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2023Book Chapterhttps://rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net/r/munzur/2802https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4929-6_71434-9922enStudies in Fuzziness and Soft Computinginfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookParthttps://munzur-rdlopen.rawdatalibrary.net/tr/items/munzur/2802