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<div style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> FYI - the
December issue of Decision Analysis has now been
published. Check out the six papers in this issue, at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/toc/deca/18/4" moz-do-not-send="true">https://pubsonline.informs.org/toc/deca/current.</a>
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Several of the papers in this special issue on emerging
topics in health decision analysis highlight the
contributions that industrial engineers can make to health
care: <br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">"Health Decision Analysis:
Evolution, Trends, and Emerging Topics" (coauthored by Jun
Zhuang, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
University at Buffalo)</div>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">"Optimizing the First
Response to Sepsis: An Electronic Health Record-Based Markov
Decision Process Model " (coauthored by Erik Rosenstrom,
Sareh Meshkinfam, Julie Simmons Ivy, and Shadi Hassani
Goodarzi of the Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering at North Carolina State University, Muge Capan
of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Jeanne
Huddleston of Mayo Clinic) <br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">"Stay Home or Not? Modeling
Individuals’ Decisions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(coauthored by Qifeng Wan, Kyle Hunt, and Jun Zhuang of the
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University
at Buffalo)</div>
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"Model Complexity and Accuracy: A COVID-19 Case Study (by
Colin Small and J. Eric Bickel, Operations Research and
Industrial Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin)</div>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">Happy reading, and happy
holidays!</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container"> --Vicki Bier,
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