Detecting dominant alternative interventions to reduce treatment costs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6924 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 131-144

  López Vallverdú, Joan Albert ^a   Riaño, David ^a   Collado, Antoni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b Grup Sagessa   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE COST; HEALTH BENEFITS; MEDICAL INTERVENTION; TREATMENT COSTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEALTH CARE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SEMANTICS;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84857723577     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27697-2_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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