Emergency Department (ED) patients may receive varying diagnostic workups and dispositions based on physician factors instead of solely…
A main research goal in various studies is to use an observational data set and provide a new set of counterfactual guidelines that can…
Patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) present as risk-averse and avoidant of feared stimuli, yet the literature examining risk…
Lockdown policies, such as stay-at-home orders, are known to be effective in controlling the spread of the novel coronavirus disease 2019.…
Key Messages
• There is active debate over whether to consider patient race and ethnicity when
estimating disease risk. By accounting for…
Abstract
In various organizations including hospitals, individuals are not forced to follow specific assignments, and thus, deviations from…
Background: Although many emergency departments (EDs) employ some form of vertical patient flow, there is
limited published literature…
Addressing hospital emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a critical challenge for many healthcare systems worldwide. Many hospitals (…
As a major public health crisis, the opioid epidemic caused over 556,000 deaths in the U.S. between 2000 and 2020. To control the epidemic…
There is a growing amount of evidence that machine learning (ML) algorithms can be used to develop accurate clinical risk scores for a wide…