Criteria | Patient # | |||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
Surgical risk factors | ||||||||||
Age | 39 | 51 | 50 | 73 | 54 | 69 | 29 | 78 | 83 | 46 |
ASA class | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Surgical urgency | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Capacity requirement factors | ||||||||||
OR time | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
OR staffing | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Blood requirement | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
PPE consumption | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
ICU requirement | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Length of stay | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
COVID-19 risk factors | ||||||||||
COVID-19 status | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
COVID-19 comorbidities | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Case transmission risk | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Total points | 18 | 23 | 19 | 31 | 20 | 32 | 15 | 32 | 27 | 16 |
Rankings based on various prioritisation strategies | ||||||||||
Reserve system | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
Point system | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
MCDA–QEWT | 4 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 1 |
ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists; ICU, intensive care unit; MCDA–QEWT, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis–Quantitative Entropy-Weighted Technique of Order Preference Similarity to Ideal Solution; OR, operating room; PPE, personal protective equipment.