Many intensive care units (ICUs) face overcrowding. One response to this overcrowding is to bump ICU patients to other departments of the hopsital to make room for new patient arrivals. Such bumping clearly has the potential to reduce quality care. In this paper we develop a stochastic model of...

Intensive Care Units (ICUs) play a vital role in hospitals and they often have capacity strain. Using data from a major teaching hospital, we empirically examine the effect of ICU capacity strain on patient discharge. Our data has a dynamic measure of patient health status, allowing us to study...