and self-care as imperfect substitutes. It is assumed that specific knowledge increases the self-diagnosis competence …

reasonably in trusting her medical provider. Here, the authors propose a test that considers the patient’s competence, knowledge … determine whether patient negligence should be considered in litigation. The project examines the line at which a physician’s … response by patients, this project considers whether comparative negligence attaches. Goodwin and Richardson argue due …

(regardless of how many times a patient is readmitted to the system). To examine the interplays among the patients' "endogenous … capture the patients' readmission process. We determine the equilibrium outcomes (the patients' endogenous arrival rate, the …

, which is defined as the revenue generated from accepted requests minus the cost incurred by patients waiting and physicians … scheduling problem with multiple servers and consideration of patient preference for physicians and their appointment times. The …

A major reason behind crowding in emergency departments (ED) is non-urgent patients' visits to ED. In this paper we … investigate how non-urgent ED visits are influenced by patients' imperfect perception of their urgency and their self … where heterogeneous patients with imperfect perceptions choose between an expensive/congested ED and less expensive general …