Essential information: Uncertainty and optimal control of Ebola outbreaks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 22, 2017, Pages 5659-5664

  Li, Shou Li ^a   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^a   Ferrari, Matthew J ^a   Mummah, Riley ^a   Runge, Michael C ^b   Fonnesbeck, Christopher J ^c   Tildesley, Michael J ^d   Probert, William J M ^d   Shea, Katriona ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Epidemiological outbreak management; Value of information; VoI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ELASTICITY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MANAGEMENT; MODEL; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY; AFRICA; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA, WESTERN; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 85019998791     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1617482114     Document Type: Article

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