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An important class of operations research problems is concerned with identifying deviations from previously determined standards or isolating changes in quality. These problems are not so much concerned with what decision to make but rather with determining what or how much information should be collected, and how the information should be analysed and presented.
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Duckett, S.J. (1987). Search. In: Operations Research for Health Planning and Administration. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93343-1_7
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