Dynamic allocation of kidneys to candidates on the transplant waiting list

Operations Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 549-569

  Zenios, Stefanos A ^a   Chertow, Glenn M ^b   Wein, Lawrence M ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

DYNAMIC INDEX POLICY; DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION; KIDNEYS; LARGE SCALE SIMULATION MODEL;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0034219492     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.48.4.549.12418     Document Type: Article

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