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Playing (and replaying) the waiting game

✍ Scribed by David J. Vanness

Book ID: 102468199
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 49 KB
Volume: 8
Category: Article
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.500080815

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Simulation is an indispensable analytic tool. With it, we can analyze complex cause-and-effect relationships without risking life and limb or wasting valuable resources getting it right. Simulation asks an endless variety of "What ifs?" without actually making an endless variety of costly process changes. Without simulation, there could be no space program; factories would be less productive; hurricanes and tornadoes would claim more lives.

Simulation is an integral part of the evaluation of health care technology and health policy. 1 In their recent work, Ratcliffe et al 2 use a simulation to determine the cost-effectiveness of rules to allocate scarce liver grafts in the United Kingdom. Given the gravity and complexity of the question, no experiment involv-

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