Designing pediatric vaccine formularies and pricing pediatric combination vaccines using operations research models and algorithms

Expert Review of Vaccines

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-19

  Jacobson, Sheldon H ^a   Sewell, Edward C ^b   Allwine, Daniel A ^d   Medina, Enrique A ^d   Weniger, Bruce G ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Combination vaccines; Operations research; Pediatric vaccines; Vaccine pricing

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B HEPATITIS B VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS HEPATITIS B HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZA B INACTIVATED POLIO VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS HEPATITIS B INACTIVATED POLIO VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

ALGORITHM; CHICKENPOX; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG COST; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MARKETING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; MEASLES; MUMPS; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUBELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TETANUS; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FORMULARIES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VACCINES; VACCINES, COMBINED;

EID: 0037992565     PISSN: 14760584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14760584.2.1.15     Document Type: Review

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