Hepatitis C Virus
Reports from State University of New York advance knowledge in hepatitis C virus
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 20th, 2010
A new study, 'Timing of testing and treatment for asymptomatic diseases,' is now available. "Many papers in the medical literature analyze the cost-effectiveness of screening for diseases by comparing a limited number of a priori testing policies under estimated problem parameters. However, this may be insufficient to determine the best timing of the tests or incorporate changes over time," investigators in the United States report.
"In this paper, we develop and solve a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model for a simple class of asymptomatic diseases in order to provide the building blocks for analysis of a more general class of diseases. We provide a computationally...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2010-09-20)
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