Improving the Effectiveness of FDA Drug Inspection

The evaluation and the allocation of inspection resources is a problem faced by private sector firms as well as by several government agencies. This paper reports the development and the use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of decision making tools for measuring the performance of their dru...

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Published in:	Operations research Vol. 40; no. 5; pp. 845 - 855
Main Authors:	Klimberg, Ronald, Revelle, Charles, Cohon, Jared
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Linthicum, MD INFORMS 01.09.1992 Operations Research Society of America Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Subjects:	agencies: regulating inspections Biological and medical sciences Case studies data analysis: multiple logistic regression and index decomposed and heuristics Drug design Drug regulation Federal regulation government Government agencies Health and social institutions Heuristics Industrial regulation Inspections Integer programming Mathematical models Medical sciences Medication adherence multiple criteria: multiobjective integer program OR Practice Pharmaceutical industries Pharmaceutical industry Probabilities programming Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Statistics Surveillance Tradeoffs United States North America America United States > US Health system Resource repartition Supervisory institution Public health organization Decision aid Models Pharmaceutical industry Food and Drug Administration Public health
ISSN:	0030-364X, 1526-5463
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