The Optimal Timing of Living-Donor Liver Transplantation

DOI10.1287/mnsc.1040.0287zbMath1232.90354MaRDI QIDQ3114924

Andrew J. Schaefer, Oguzhan Alagoz, Lisa M. Maillart, Mark S. Roberts

Publication date: 19 February 2012

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/344e48deeec0cb408c3cfc9bdc606c372ab32370

zbMATH Keywords

Markov decision processes; service operations; medical decision making

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90C90: Applications of mathematical programming

90C40: Markov and semi-Markov decision processes

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