Suggested criteria for surgical prioritisation and rankings based on various strategies
| 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.