because they confront the physicians with a challenging task: prioritizing between boarding patients and patients currently … policies for the physicians when needy boarding patients are added to the analysis. Using discrete-event simulation, three … emergency department setting, health-related performance measures also need to be considered: physicians cannot disadvantage one …

troubling given that physicians are often privy to the most intimate aspects of their patients’ lives. Patients place a profound … trust in their physician, and the resulting relational dynamic may impact how a patient perceives or reacts to a physician’s …