Probabilistic models for optimizing patients survival rates

DOI10.1080/09720502.2008.10700595zbMATH Open1160.60331OpenAlexW2082940158MaRDI QIDQ3604036FDOQ3604036

Dimitrios I. Stengos, J. E. Goulionis, George Tzavelas

Publication date: 24 February 2009

Published in: Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09720502.2008.10700595

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamic programmingMarkov processesOR in medicine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical applications (general) (92C50) Dynamic programming (90C39) Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) (60K10)

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Cited In (1)

• The partially observable Markov decision processes in healthcare: an application to patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD)

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