Patient safety is a global public health issue, causing death and suffering in all types of patients and incurring …

Many patients have a choice of a provider for acute care, typically choosing between an Urgent Care facility (UC) or an … Emergency Department of a hospital (ED). This choice is made by a patient who is generally not herself a trained medical … patients, and takes into account the factors that affect the patient. We show that a separating equilibrium, in which all …