A simulation study of cadaveric liver allocation with a single-score patient prioritization formula

Journal of Simulation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 109-125

  Feng, W H ^a   Kong, N ^b   Wan, H ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cadaveric liver allocation; design of experiments; response surface; simulation modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; MIXTURES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CADAVERIC LIVER ALLOCATION; LIVER TRANSPLANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIXTURE DESIGN; PRIORITIZATION; RESPONSE SURFACE; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION STUDIES;

CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84876388444     PISSN: 17477778     EISSN: 17477786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jos.2012.21     Document Type: Article

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