Title :
Costing Mixed Coxian Phase-type Systems in a given time interval
Author :
McClean, Sally ; Garg, Lalit ; Gillespie, J. ; Fullerton, Ken
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Ulster, Coleraine, UK
Abstract :
Previously we have introduced a modelling framework to classify individuals in Mixed Coxian Phase-type Systems. We here add costs and obtain results for moments of total costs in (0, t], for an individual, and a cohort arriving at time zero. Based on data from the Belfast City Hospital Stroke Unit we use the overall modelling framework to obtain results for total cost in a given time interval to facilitate planners who have limited time horizons for budget planning.
Keywords :
Markov processes; medical administrative data processing; Belfast City Hospital Stroke Unit; Mixed Coxian Phase type Systems; budget planning; total costs; Computational modeling; Costing; Hospitals; Markov processes; Transient analysis; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2013 IEEE 26th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Porto
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2013.6627818
