Background: Although many emergency departments (EDs) employ some form of vertical patient flow, there is
limited published literature…
Abstract
In various organizations including hospitals, individuals are not forced to follow specific assignments, and thus, deviations from…
Addressing hospital emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a critical challenge for many healthcare systems worldwide. Many hospitals (…
The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population…
March 2023. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Matthew Baum, the Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications and Professor of Public…
As the largest user of global water, irrigated agriculture accounts for 20% of global cropland and 40% of food production. Irrigation is…
With hospitals absorbing more physician practices, medicine is becoming more vertically integrated. But a new study finds that rather than…
The US spends substantially more on health care per capita than other high-income countries yet leaves a greater share of the population…
A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council finds strong support globally for government regulation of biopharmaceutical prices.
We study how to admit and schedule heterogeneous patients by using simple, interpretable, yet effective policies when capacity is scarce,…