Gerrymandering for justice: Redistricting U.S. liver allocation

Interfaces

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 462-480

  Gentry, Sommer ^a,b   Chow, Eric ^b   Massie, Allan ^b,c   Segev, Dorry ^b,c  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare; Liver; Location allocation; Redistricting; Set partitioning; Transplantation; Zero one integer programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949214976     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.2015.0810     Document Type: Article

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