Table 3 MCDM methods on medical waste management.

From: A novel Fractional fuzzy approach for multi-criteria decision-making in medical waste management

Author

Year

Focus

Caniato et al.60

2015

Medical waste governance structures

Ali et al.61

2017

Managing hospital waste in developing countries

Zamparas et al.62

2019

Analyzing environmental impacts of medical waste

Thakur63

2020

A sustainable waste management system for healthcare

Chauhan et al.64

2021

Circular economy drive smart city healthcare waste disposal

Wei et al.65

2021

Mitigating environmental challenges from increasing medical waste

Nosheen et al.66

2022

Evaluate medical waste management awareness and practices

Neves et al.67

2022

Hospital waste management analysis

Celik et al.68

2023

Select the hospital with the best medical waste management

Szpilko et al.69

2023

Assess the relevance of waste management research to smart cities

Nematollahi et al.70

2024

Life cycle analysis of hospital waste management strategies

Jungbluth et al.71

2024

Challenges and enablers in healthcare waste recycling

Our study

2025

Optimize medical waste management strategies