Many patients have a choice of a provider for acute care, typically choosing between an Urgent Care facility (UC) or an … patients, and takes into account the factors that affect the patient. We show that a separating equilibrium, in which all … patients self-triaged as non-critical choose to go to the UC first, dominates pooling equilibria for moderate error rates in …

satisfaction by communicating waits to patients.We conduct a field experiment at an urban ED. We develop a machine learning … patients with personalized estimated waits with no overestimation (the median), moderate overestimation (70th-percentile), or … high overestimation (90th-percentile). Patients report higher satisfaction when receiving their estimated waits, but the …

Background and Objectives: A study conducted in China on patients with COVIID 19 revealed that cancer conferred a five … patients were included in the study; out of which, 244 had a history of cancer. After adjusting to the different confounding … cancer conferred poorer clinical outcomes on adult, hospitalized patients who were infected with COVID-19. Other demographic …