A spoonful of math helps the medicine go down: An illustration of how healthcare can benefit from mathematical modeling and analysis

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Foster, E Michael ^a   Hosking, Michael R ^b   Ziya, Serhan ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77953705635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-60     Document Type: Article

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