Timing of testing and treatment for asymptomatic diseases

DOI10.1016/J.MBS.2010.03.007MaRDI QIDQ985247zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Eser Kırkızlar, Daniel M. Faissol, Paul M. Griffin, Julie Swann

Publication date 20 July 2010

Published in Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2010.03.007

zbMATH Keywords

Markov decision processeshepatitis Cdisease modelingasymptomatic diseasesdisease screening and intervention

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical applications (general) (92C50) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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