Identifying and prioritizing factors affecting doctors’ professional performance for effective performance management: an interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy analytic hierarchy process model

This study formulates the evaluation of doctors' professional performance as a complex fuzzy multicriteria decision-making problem. It pioneers the application of the interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy AHP method in healthcare and contributes by adding new dimensions to the existing body of literature. The originality of this research lies not only in the application of an advanced fuzzy methodology but also in the integration of key factors into a hierarchical structure and their systematic prioritization. The study contributes new perspectives to both theory and practice in healthcare performance management.