Identification of an Optimal COVID-19 Booster Allocation Strategy to Minimize Hospital Bed-Days with a Fixed Healthcare Budget

Identification of an Optimal COVID-19 Booster Allocation Strategy to Minimize Hospital Bed-Days with a Fixed Healthcare Budget

Healthcare decision-makers face difficult decisions regarding COVID-19 booster selection given limited budgets and the need to maximize healthcare gain. A constrained optimization (CO) model was developed to identify booster allocation strategies that minimize bed-days by varying the proportion of t...

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Main Authors: Ritika Kapoor, Baudouin Standaert, Edmund J. Pezalla, Nadia Demarteau, Kelly Sutton, Eszter Tichy, George Bungey, Sofie Arnetorp, Klas Bergenheim, Duncan Darroch-Thompson, Wilhelmine Meeraus, Lucas M. Okumura, Renata Tiene de Carvalho Yokota, Ray Gani, Terry Nolan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Series:Vaccines
Subjects:
COVID-19 vaccination
booster
constrained optimization model
budget constraint
booster allocation
budget and healthcare resources
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/2/377

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