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Decision Support for Allocating Scarce Drugs

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  • Jayashankar M. Swaminathan

    (The Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3490)

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The 1998 settlement of a lawsuit by the state of California required 19 pharmaceutical firms to provide $150 million worth of drugs free of charge to more than 150 California clinics and hospitals over a three-year period. We developed a decision-support system that utilizes a multiobjective optimization model and a heuristic solution taking into account the efficiency, effectiveness, and equity of the drug-allocation process. As of November 2002, 90 percent of the total budget has been distributed to the various clinics with the help of this decision-support system.

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  • Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, 2003. "Decision Support for Allocating Scarce Drugs," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 33(2), pages 1-11, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:33:y:2003:i:2:p:1-11
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.33.2.1.14472
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