Hospitalists are physicians that specialize in the care of hospital inpatients, a job that until recently belonged to primary care physicians. We develop an operational model of hospitalist-patient interaction with rounding and responding service modes, optimizing hospitalist case-mix and...

Lack of rapidly available neurological expertise, especially in rural areas, is one of the key obstacles in stroke care. Stroke care networks attempt to address this challenge by connecting hospitals with specialized stroke centers, stroke units, and hospitals of lower levels of care. While the...