Surveillance Schedules for Medical Examinations

A model is developed to aid in determining examination schedules for the detection of an age-dependent disease. It is shown that in an optimal schedule the interval between examinations is proportional to the square root of the age-specific incidence probability of the disease. To illustrate the methodology, optimal schedules are developed for breast cancer examinations.

• 저널Management Science · 20(10) · 1403–1409
• 토픽Statistical Methods and Inference · Statistics and Probability
• DOI10.1287/mnsc.20.10.1403
• 저자Roberta L. A. Kirch, Martin Klein