Problem definition: Inpatient beds are usually grouped into several wards, and each ward is assigned to serve patients from certain "primary" specialties. However, when a patient waits excessively long before a primary bed becomes available, hospital managers have the option to assign her to a...

The gap between medical research on diagnostic testing and clinical workflow can lead to rejection of valuable medical research in a busy clinical environment due to increased workloads, or rejection of medical research in the lab that may be valuable in practice due to a misunderstanding of the...