Because a hospital is an interconnected, interdependent network of care units, allocating resources — beds, nurses, and improvement initiatives — to one unit to reduce its congestion may have spillover effects on other units. As such, to identify the bottleneck unit and improve access to...

Even when human point forecasts are less accurate than data-based algorithm predictions, they can still help boost performance by being used as algorithm inputs. Assuming one uses human judgment indirectly in this manner, we propose changing the elicitation question from the traditional direct...