Archimedes: A new model for simulating health care systems - The mathematical formulation

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-50

  Schlessinger, Leonard ^a   Eddy, David M ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological patient care model; Decision making health services administration models; Mathematical continuous time object oriented simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLINICAL MEDICINE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0036399171     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1532-0464(02)00006-0     Document Type: Article

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