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Information Elicitation and Influenza Vaccine Production by Chick, Stephen E., Hasija, Sameer, Nasiry, Javad

“…We explore the procurement of influenza vaccines by a government whose objective is to minimize the expected social costs (including vaccine, vaccine…”
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Giving more detailed information about health insurance encourages consumers to choose compromise options by Chick, Stephen E., Hawkins, Scott A., Soberman, David

“…IntroductionTo investigate how the provision of additional information about the health events and procedures covered by a healthcare plan affect the level of…”
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A quality improvement study on how a simulation model can help decision making on organization of ICU wards by Sent, Danielle, van der Meulen, Delanie M, Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E, Wissink, Ilse J A, Vlaar, Alexander P J, Dongelmans, Dave A

“…Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity management is essential to provide high-quality healthcare for critically ill patients. Yet, consensus on the most favorable…”
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Interventions to reduce the risk of surgically transmitted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a cost-effective modelling review by Stevenson, Matt, Uttley, Lesley, Oakley, Jeremy E, Carroll, Christopher, Chick, Stephen E, Wong, Ruth

“…Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatal neurological disease caused by abnormal infectious proteins called prions. Prions that are present on surgical instruments…”
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Editorial: The science and art of value in healthcare: Measures, voices and methods by Chilingerian, Jon A, Chick, Stephen E, True, Gala

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Bayesian Sequential Learning for Clinical Trials of Multiple Correlated Medical Interventions by Chick, Stephen E., Gans, Noah, Yapar, Özge

“…We propose and analyze the first model for clinical trial design that integrates each of three important trends intending to improve the effectiveness of…”
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Value-Based Clinical Trials: Selecting Recruitment Rates and Trial Lengths in Different Regulatory Contexts by Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E., Forster, Martin

“…Health systems are placing increasing emphasis on improving the design and operation of clinical trials with the aim of making the health technology adoption…”
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A Tutorial on Value-Based Adaptive Designs: Could a Value-Based Sequential 2-Arm Design Have Created More Health Economic Value for the Big CACTUS Trial? by Flight, Laura, Brennan, Alan, Wilson, Isabelle, Chick, Stephen E.

“…Value-based trials aim to maximize the expected net benefit by balancing technology adoption decisions and clinical trial costs. Adaptive trials offer…”
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A Game-Theoretic Model of International Influenza Vaccination Coordination by Mamani, Hamed, Chick, Stephen E., Simchi-Levi, David

“…Influenza vaccination decisions in one country can influence the size of an outbreak in other countries due to interdependent risks from infectious disease…”
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Optimal Hiring and Retention Policies for Heterogeneous Workers Who Learn by Arlotto, Alessandro, Chick, Stephen E., Gans, Noah

“…We study the hiring and retention of heterogeneous workers who learn over time. We show that the problem can be analyzed as an infinite-armed bandit with…”
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Bayesian Optimization via Simulation with Pairwise Sampling and Correlated Prior Beliefs by Xie, Jing, Frazier, Peter I., Chick, Stephen E.

“…This paper addresses discrete optimization via simulation. We show that allowing for both a correlated prior distribution on the means (e.g., with discrete…”
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Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination by Chick, Stephen E, Mamani, Hamed, Simchi-Levi, David

“…Annual influenza outbreaks incur great expenses in both human and monetary terms, and billions of dollars are being allocated for influenza pandemic…”
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Sequential Sampling with Economics of Selection Procedures by Chick, Stephen E., Frazier, Peter

“…Sequential sampling problems arise in stochastic simulation and many other applications. Sampling is used to infer the unknown performance of several…”
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A taxonomy of model structures for economic evaluation of health technologies by Brennan, Alan, Chick, Stephen E., Davies, Ruth

“…Models for the economic evaluation of health technologies provide valuable information to decision makers. The choice of model structure is rarely discussed in…”
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Selecting a Selection Procedure by Branke, Jurgen, Chick, Stephen E, Schmidt, Christian

“…Selection procedures are used in a variety of applications to select the best of a finite set of alternatives. "Best" is defined with respect to the largest…”
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ICU capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic using a process simulation by Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E., Dongelmans, Dave A., Vlaar, Alexander P. J., Sent, Danielle

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Economic Analysis of Simulation Selection Problems by Chick, Stephen E, Gans, Noah

“…Ranking and selection procedures are standard methods for selecting the best of a finite number of simulated design alternatives based on a desired level of…”
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Expected Value of Information Methods for Contextual Ranking and Selection: Clinical Trials and Simulation Optimization by Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E., Zoumpoulis, Spyros I.

“…We consider the contextual ranking and selection problem that aims to learn the best treatment as a function of covariates when expected outcomes are unknown…”
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Sequential, Value-Based Designs for Certain Clinical Trials with Multiple Arms Having Correlated Rewards by Chick, Stephen E., Gans, Noah, Yapar, Ozge

“…The time and money required to run clinical trials, as well as the cost effectiveness of technologies emerging from these trials are receiving increasing…”
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A Simulation Model to Evaluate the Patient Flow in an Intensive Care Unit under Different Levels of Specialization by Alban, Andres, Chick, Stephen E., Lvova, Oleksandra, Sent, Danielle

“…Intensive care units are complicated hospital departments in that they have both urgent and elective patients with a variety of specialty needs that cannot be…”
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