Designing referral network structures and decision rules to streamline provision of urgent health and human services

Decision Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 351-371

  Gibbons, Deborah E ^a   Samaddar, Subhashish ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent Based Models; And Vaccine Delivery; Computational Models; Emergency Services; Health Care; Humanitarian Logistics; Interorganizational Networks; Network Structures; Public Health Systems; Referral Networks; Referral Partners; Simulation; Social Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949099329     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2009.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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