Telemedical physician triage (TPT) is an example of a hierarchical knowledge-based service system (HKBSS) in which a second level of decision agent (telemedical physician) renders a decision on cases
Multi-class queueing systems widely used in operations research and management typically experience ambiguity in real world settings in the form of unknown parameters.
Recent medical literature suggests that vitamin D supplementation protects against acute respiratory tract infection. Humans exposed to sunlight produce vitamin D directly.
There is an unmet need for greater investment in preparedness against major epidemics and pandemics.
Excess prices for drugs in the U.S. is a persistently vexing policy problem.
Behavioural economic research has established that defaults, one form of nudge, powerfully influence choices. In most policy contexts, all individuals receive the same nudge.
Drug pricing in the U.S. is a persistently vexing policy problem.
In these times of heated rhetoric about what various health care reforms can and cannot accomplish, both hopeful and doomsday stories abound.
Much of the risk adjustment literature has focused on how persons should be classified and given weights. It has given less attention to the amount of funds in the risk adjustment pool.
Risk-adjustment algorithms typically incorporate demographic and clinical variables to equalize compensation to insurers for enrollees who vary in expected cost, but including information about enroll
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