Adoption of a high-impact innovation in a homogeneous population

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Weiss, Curtis H ^a   Poncela Casasnovas, Julia ^b,c   Glaser, Joshua I ^b   Pah, Adam R ^b   Persell, Stephen D ^a   Baker, David W ^a   Wunderink, Richard G ^a   Nunes Amaral, Luís A ^b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Medical physics

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

ADOPTION OF INNOVATIONS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; HETEROGENEOUS POPULATIONS; INNOVATION ADOPTION; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; MEDICAL PHYSICS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84921455313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041008     Document Type: Article

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