Decision Support for Allocating Scarce Drugs

Jayashankar M. Swaminathan ()
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Jayashankar M. Swaminathan: The Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3490

Interfaces, 2003, vol. 33, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health; care:; pharmaceutical.; Decision; analysis:; systems. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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