Mason, J.E.; Denton, B.T.; Shah, N.D.; Smith, S.A. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 233 (2014) 3, pp. 727-738
We present a Markov decision process (MDP) model to determine the optimal timing of blood pressure and cholesterol medications. We study the use of our model for a high-risk population of patients with type 2 diabetes; however, the model and methods we present are applicable to the general...