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Designing pediatric vaccine formularies and pricing pediatric combination vaccines using operations research models and algorithms

Sheldon H Jacobson Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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Edward C Sewell Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, USA
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Daniel A Allwine Austral Engineering and Software Inc., OH, USA
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Enrique A Medina MS, Austral Engineering and Software Inc., OH, USA
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Bruce G Weniger Vaccine Safety and Development Branch, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Pages 15-19 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014

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