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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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states before and after the event. For example, the diagnosis event could be
represented as the transition between a pre-diagnosis state and a diagnosed
disease state but this is less straightforward than having a diagnosis event.
Moreover, the latter facilitates incorporating a cost of diagnosis, a decision
point, perhaps some implications for other events, and so on.
In some cases, a disease may be readily described by a series of states.These
may represent, for example, stages of a cancer or severity levels. Does that
argue against the use of DES? Usually no because, even in these situations,
there is typically a mixture of events and states, not a pure set of states. DES
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