1255. Dynamic simulation of KEPs: statistics, tools, and visualisations
Invited abstract in session MA-11: Kidney Exchange, stream OR in Healthcare (ORAHS).
Monday, 8:30-10:00Room: Clarendon SR 1.03
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | William Pettersson
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| University of Glasgow | |
| 2. | Rachael Colley
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| School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow | |
| 3. | David Manlove
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| School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow | |
| 4. | Matthew Robb
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| NHS Blood and Transplant |
Abstract
Kidney exchange programmes (KEPs) allow patients requiring a kidney transplant, and with a willing but incompatible donor, to exchange their donor with another pair in a similar situation so that both patients can recieve a kidney transplant. By using OR techniques, a KEP can gather hundreds of such pairs, find an optimal set of such exchanges, and facilitate the corresponding transplants, improving patient outcomes and reducing medical costs. However, it is not always clear what should define an "optimal set of exchanges". In this talk we show how dynamic simulation can showcase various different criteria for optimality. This talk will include detailing what statistics were necessary to generate the scenarios tested, a description of OR techniques used to improve the speed of the simulations, and also a demonstration of visualisation tools used to present the results to decision-makers.
Keywords
- Health Care
- Simulation
- Software
Status: accepted
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