Choosing among living-donor and cadaveric livers

Management Science

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1702-1715

  Alagoz, Oguzhan ^a   Maillart, Lisa M ^b   Schaefer, Andrew J ^b   Roberts, Mark S ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Control limit policy; Dynamic programming; Health care applications; Markov decision processes; Medical decision making; Optimal stopping; Organ transplantation; Service operations

Indexed keywords

MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OPTIMAL STOPPING; SERVICE OPERATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEALTH CARE; MARKOV PROCESSES;

TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

EID: 38549102662     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1070.0726     Document Type: Article

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