Imperial College London
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ProfessorKatharinaHauck

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Professor in Health Economics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9197k.hauck Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Julie Middleton +44 (0)20 7594 3284

 
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Location

 

Office 502School of Public HealthWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{DAeth:2021:10.1038/s43588-021-00111-1,
author = {DAeth, J and Ghosal, S and Grimm, F and Haw, D and Koca, E and Lau, K and Moret, S and Rizmie, D and Deeny, S and Perez-Guzman, P and Ferguson, N and Hauck, K and Smith, P and Forchini, G and Wiesemann, W and Miraldo, M},
doi = {10.1038/s43588-021-00111-1},
journal = {Nature Computational Science},
pages = {521--531},
title = {Optimal national prioritization policies for hospital care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43588-021-00111-1},
volume = {1},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - In response to unprecedent surges in the demand for hospital care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, health systems have prioritized COVID patients to life-saving hospital care to the detriment of other patients. In contrast to these ad hoc policies, we develop a linear programming framework to optimally schedule elective procedures and allocate hospital beds among all planned and emergency patients to minimize years of life lost. Leveraging a large dataset of administrative patient medical records, we apply our framework to the National Health System in England and show that an extra 50,750-5,891,608 years of life can be gained in comparison to prioritization policies that reflect those implemented during the pandemic. Significant health gains are observed for neoplasms, diseases of the digestive system, and injuries & poisoning. Our open-source framework provides a computationally efficient approximation of a large-scale discrete optimization problem that can be applied globally to support national-level care prioritization policies.
AU  - DAeth,J
AU  - Ghosal,S
AU  - Grimm,F
AU  - Haw,D
AU  - Koca,E
AU  - Lau,K
AU  - Moret,S
AU  - Rizmie,D
AU  - Deeny,S
AU  - Perez-Guzman,P
AU  - Ferguson,N
AU  - Hauck,K
AU  - Smith,P
AU  - Forchini,G
AU  - Wiesemann,W
AU  - Miraldo,M
DO  - 10.1038/s43588-021-00111-1
EP  - 531
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 2662-8457
SP  - 521
TI  - Optimal national prioritization policies for hospital care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
T2  - Nature Computational Science
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43588-021-00111-1
UR  - https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-021-00111-1
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/90500
VL  - 1
ER  -
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