Optimal Policies for Reducing Unnecessary Follow-up Mammography Exams in Breast Cancer Diagnosis.

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Published in Decis Anal on September 01, 2013

Authors

Oguzhan Alagoz1, Jagpreet Chhatwal2, Elizabeth S Burnside3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1513 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53705, alagoz@engr.wisc.edu.
2: Department of Health Policy and Management and Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 130 De Soto Street Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, chhatwal@pitt.edu.
3: Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI, 53792, eburnside@uwhealth.org.

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