Characteristics of a simulation model of the national kidney transplantation system

Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2320-2329

  Davis, Ashley ^a   Mehrotra, Sanjay ^a   Friedewald, John ^b   Ladner, Daniela ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84894200427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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