Timing of testing and treatment for asymptomatic diseases

DOI10.1016/J.MBS.2010.03.007zbMATH Open1193.92060OpenAlexW1965502082WikidataQ44568605 ScholiaQ44568605MaRDI QIDQ985247FDOQ985247

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

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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