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In most emergency departments, beds are a hot commodity. But some patients don’t actually need a bed for their treatment – and accurately identifying those people is a low-lift but effective way to increase efficiency without sacrificing care quality, finds a study recently published in the journal Management Science.
The researchers developed a simple decision tree, informed by mathematical and machine learning models, to help staff decide whether a patient truly needs a bed or can be routed to a “vertical processing pathway” – that is, an area where they can be treated sitting up. Many hospitals already have such an area but don’t necessarily have a systematic way to decide which patients are treated there.
Diversity alone won’t get the votes for funding public education. It takes communities that are more integrated and connected, where residents have a sense of shared stake.
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CATONSVILLE, MD, November 2, 2016 - A forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, based on the psychology of sympathy, shows that small changes in the wording of a fundraising letter can increase donations by over 300 percent.
After dedicating a significant number of years and money to earning a university degree, what motivates people to voluntarily work in jobs outside their field? In a study selected for publication in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, study author Briana Sell Stenard, INFORMS member and assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University, explored the factors that contribute to this including loss of interest, better pay and working conditions, higher positions, and increased flexibility.
In an upcoming Management Science study, INFORMS member and professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Ruxian Wang has developed a method to measure the appeal or "cool factor" of commercial products.
A forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science by INFORMS member and professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Jian Ni, explores how guiding patients to a more appropriate level of healthcare can reduce healthcare expenditures.
Planning a pub crawl and need to know the shortest distance between each of your stops? INFORMS member Professor William Cook from the University of Waterloo, Canada has done just that on a much grander scale than could be accomplished in one night of festivities. Using the "traveling salesman problem" approach, Cook plotted the coordinates of 24,727 pubs in the U.K. to ascertain the shortest possible route between them all.
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