Applications of Decision Analysis to Health Care

Applications of Decision Analysis to Health Care

This dissertation deals with three problems in health care. In the first, we consider the incentives to change prices and capital levels at hospitals, using optimal control under the assumption that private payers charge higher prices if patients consume more hospital services. The main results are...

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Main Author: Hagtvedt, Reidar
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2008
Subjects:
Discrete-event simulation
Health care
Continuous time mark chains
Optimal control
Hospitals
Capital
Pricing
Nosocomial infections
Emergency medical services
Operations research
Queuing theory
Computer simulation
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22535

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