Admission control biases in hospital unit capacity management: How occupancy information hurdles and decision noise impact utilization

SH Kim, J Tong, C Peden - Management Science, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Providing patients with timely care from the appropriate unit involves both correct clinical
evaluation of patient needs and making admission decisions to effectively manage a unit …

Learning when to stop searching

DG Goldstein, RP McAfee, S Suri… - Management …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
In the classical secretary problem, one attempts to find the maximum of an unknown and
unlearnable distribution through sequential search. In many real-world searches, however …

First things first? Order effects in online product recommender systems

X Guo, L Wang, M Zhang, G Chen - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Research on recommender systems has noted that the ranking of recommended items may
play an important role in the performance of recommendation algorithms. To advance …

Searching for and evaluating outsourced chief investment officers

D Park, D Ryu - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyzes the impact of the outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) index and
OCIO search consultant on asset owners' selection of OCIOs. We adopt an agent‐based …

Mismanaging diagnostic accuracy under congestion

M Kremer, F de Véricourt - Operations Research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
To study the effect of congestion on the fundamental tradeoff between diagnostic accuracy
and speed, we empirically test the predictions of a formal sequential testing model in a …

Internal or External Word-of-Mouth (WOM), Why Do Patients Choose Doctors on Online Medical Services (OMSs) Single Platform in China?

J Shen, B An, M Xu, D Gan, T Pan - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Word-of-mouth (WOM) can influence patients' choice of doctors in online
medical services (OMSs). Previous studies have explored the relationship between internal …

Designing risk‐adjusted therapy for patients with hypertension

M Zargoush, M Gümüş, V Verter… - Production and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Limited guidance is available for providing patient‐specific care to hypertensive patients,
although this chronic condition is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. To …

On hiring secretaries with stochastic departures

T Kesselheim, A Psomas, S Vardi - Operations Research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study a generalization of the secretary problem, where decisions do not have to be
made immediately upon applicants' arrivals. After arriving, each applicant stays in the …

Behavioral externalities of process automation

R Beer, A Qi, I Ríos - Available at SSRN 4295527, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the behavioral effects of process automation on human workers interacting with
automated tasks. We introduce a stylized model with two workers who complete their tasks …

Post-decision search in repeated and variable environments

K Teodorescu, K Sang, PM Todd - Judgment and Decision Making, 2018 - cambridge.org
When faced with a decision, people collect information to help them decide. Though it may
seem unnecessary, people often continue to search for information about alternatives after …