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. 2021 Mar 24;24(4):742–767. doi: 10.1007/s10729-021-09546-4

Table 1.

List of model parameters

Parameters Values Sources
Office service rate (μo) 2.525/hour [45]
Virtual service rate (μv) 5/hour [47]
Office arrival rate (λo) 7.943 patients/month [41, 46],
Virtual arrival rate (λv) 0.922 patients/month [45]
Office follow-up rate (σo) 0.842/month [19]
Virtual follow-up rate (σv) 1.667/month
Departure/death rate (δ) 0.00107/month [14, 29]
Disease progression rate(γ) 0.5/week [13]
Probability that the new arriving patient is in the controlled health state (ph) 0.57 [17]
Probability that patients diagnosed in the controlled health state remain in the controlled health state (pc) 0.9
Probability that patients diagnosed in the uncontrolled health state improve to a controlled health state (pu) 0.7
Probability controlled patient is diagnosed as controlled (pc|c) 0.9
Probability uncontrolled patient is diagnosed as controlled (pc|u) 0.2
Office marginal profit (rso) $2620/month [32]
Virtual marginal profit (rsv,c,rsv,u) $2620/month
Office overflow penalty cost (fso) $1000/month
Virtual overflow penalty cost (fsv,c,fsv,u) $1000/month
Office fixed threshold capacity cost (ηso) $1692/month
Virtual fixed threshold capacity cost (ηsv,c,ηsv,u) $1150.56/month [2]