Fiscal Difficulties of Cities, the Labor Market, and Health Care
We investigated labor force and health outcomes in cities experiencing fiscal difficulties to assess how those difficulties might impact their employees.
Research
Improving Compliance to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Cms) Sepsis Bundle Using Epic Emr Informatics
epsis is a common cause of mortality and morbidity affecting over 1.5 million individuals annually in the United States alone.
Changes in Screening Colonoscopy Following Medicare Reimbursement and Cost-Sharing Changes
Objective: To compare existing algorithms for classifying screening vs diagnostic colonoscopies and to quantify the increase in screening colonoscopy rates when Medicare began reimbursement in 2001 an
Strategic Sorting: The Role of Ordeals in Health Care
Ordeals are burdens placed on individuals that yield no direct benefits to others. They represent a dead-weight loss.
Trickle-Down Innovation and the Longevity of Nations
The article offers information on association between income and life expectancy.
Towards a Conceptual Model of Affective Predictions in Palliative Care
Being diagnosed with cancer often forces patients and families to make difficult medical decisions.
Joint Patient Selection and Scheduling under No-Shows: Theory and Application in Proton Therapy
Motivated by operational challenges facing adopters of new technologies in the service industry, we study how to admit and schedule customers from a pool of heterogeneous potential users when capacity
Overcoming Barriers to Clinical Trial Enrollment
Clinical trials are imperative for testing novel cancer therapies, advancing the science of cancer care, and determining the best treatment strategies to enhance outcomes for patients with cancer.
Data-Driven Percentile Optimization for Multi-Class Queueing Systems with Model Ambiguity: Theory and Application
Multiclass queueing systems widely used in operations research and management typically experience ambiguity in real-world settings in the form of unknown parameters.
Parent Preferences for Health Outcomes Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Few studies have used preference-based quality-of-life outcomes to assess how autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) affect children and parents, and none have examined variation by ASD severity.
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