Simulation optimization of PSA-threshold based prostate cancer screening policies.

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Published in Health Care Manag Sci on December 01, 2012

Authors

Daniel J Underwood1, Jingyu Zhang, Brian T Denton, Nilay D Shah, Brant A Inman

Author Affiliations

1: Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. daniel.underwood@ncsu.edu

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