Modeling hospital discharge policies for patients with pneumonia-related sepsis
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JENNIFER E. KREKE1, MATTHEW D. BAILEY2, ANDREW J. SCHAEFER1,∗, DEREK C. ANGUS3 and MARK S. ROBERTS4 1Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1048 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA E-mail: {jekreke,schaefer}@ie.pitt.edu 2Department of Management, Bucknell University, 701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA E-mail: [email protected] 3CRISMA Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 604 Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA E-mail: [email protected] 4Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Meyran Avenue, Suite 200, Pittsburgh PA, 15213, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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