Since the 1980s a number of works have been done in the use of fuzzy or AHP or a combination of both in medical decision making.
However, not much research has been conducted on the comparison of both methods. A literature search shows only one of such studies, which was conducted by Ghotb and Warren (1995) on the comparison of AHP and fuzzy methodologies in hospital equipment acquisition decision.
The results of their study are similar to those obtained in our study – that the fuzzy method produces a non-significant
superiority over the AHP method.