Objective: Appetitive risk behaviors (ARB), including tobacco use, alcohol consumption, consumption of calorie dense/nutrient-poor foods,…
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes…
As coronavirus continues to spread, the Trump administration has declared a public health emergency and imposed quarantines and travel…
Do negative feelings in general trigger addictive behavior, or do specific emotions play a stronger role? Testing these alternative…
Motivated by operational challenges facing adopters of new technologies in the service industry, we study how to admit and schedule…
Objective: To describe the relationship between emergency department resource utilization and admission rate at the level of the individual…
Improving the performance of the healthcare sector requires an understanding of the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivered by…
Previous work has suggested that Emergency Department rotational patient assignment (a system in which patients are algorithmically…
Multi-class queueing systems widely used in operations research and management typically experience ambiguity in real world settings in the…
Telemedical physician triage (TPT) is an example of a hierarchical knowledge-based service system (HKBSS) in which a second level of…