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. 2017 Nov 20;16(1):123–132. doi: 10.1007/s40258-017-0362-6
Hospital quality of care (QoC)-scores decrease in the winter due to the surge of pediatric infectious diseases.
Modelling the optimization of the healthcare budget could help to identify the balance between treatment and prevention to improve the QoC-scores to a fixed amount.
The model is able to predict which combination of the two competing strategies is the most efficient for improving the QoC-scores in pediatric hospital units during the rotavirus seasonal peak.