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Mondher Toumi is leading Creativ-Ceutical, a consultancy that develops Markov and discrete event simulation models. Ekkehard Beck, Steve Sherman, Leyla Mohseninejad and Samuel Aballéa are employees of Creativ-Ceutical.
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Toumi, M., Beck, E., Sherman, S. et al. Discretely Integrated Condition Event Simulation for Pharmacoeconomics. PharmacoEconomics 34, 1187–1188 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-016-0449-1
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