From: Optimal screening and donor management in a public stool bank
Parameter | Description | Value |
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p 0 | Proportion who pass clinical assessment | 0.351 |
p s | Proportion who pass first stool test | 0.444 |
p b | Proportion who pass first serum test | 1.0 |
c 0 | Cost of clinical assessment | $50 |
c s | Cost of stool test | $600 |
c b | Cost of serum test | $235 |
c i | Cost of interim test | $120 |
c d | Cost of paying donors | $18/day |
c p | Cost of processing donated stool | $0.15/g |
Ï„ s | Time delay of stool test | 12 days |
Ï„ i | Time delay of interim test | 5 days |
f 1,…,f n | PMF of donor stool production rate | Section 1.1 in Additional file 1 |
η | Exponential failure rate for Rotavirus and C. difficule | 0.0066/day |
γ | Exponential failure rate for the other 25 agents | 0.0040/day |
T | Time horizon of optimization problem | 365 days |
α | Initial demand rate | 240 g/day |
β | Exponential demand parameter | 0.0029/day |