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Discrete Event Simulation for Health Technology Assessment
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Discrete Event Simulation for Health Technology Assessment

by J. Jaime Caro, Jörgen Möller, Jonathan Karnon, James Stahl, Jack Ishak
October 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
374 pages
13h 23m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Implementation
In order to produce results that inform a health technology assessment
(HTA), a model design must be converted into executable computer code
that performs the required calculations. Implementation refers to the actual
processes involved in taking the model from design to working software.
A discrete event simulation (DES) can, in principle, be constructed using
paper and pencil. But apart from its didactic benet, this is extremely cum-
bersome even for a very simple model and not feasible for a realistic HTA.
Fortunately, the advent of computers made it possible to carry out complex
DES, and, thus, since the 1950s there ha
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