Improving the performance of the healthcare sector requires an understanding of the effectiveness and efficiency of care delivered by providers. Although this topic is of great interest to policymakers, researchers, and hospital managers, rigorous methods of measuring effectiveness and...

An important contributor to the well-known problem of Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding is prolonged boarding of patients who are admitted through the ED. Patients admitted through the ED constitute about 50% of all non-obstetrical hospital admissions, and may be boarded in the ED for long...

Understanding potential channels through which physicians impact each other's performance can yield new insights into better management of hospitals' operations. We use evidence from Emergency Medicine to study whether and how physicians who work alongside each other during the same shifts...

Organ-transplanted patients typically receive high amounts of immunosuppressive drugs (e.g., tacrolimus) as a mechanism to reduce their risk of organ rejection. However, due to the diabetogenic effect of these drugs, this practice exposes them to greater risk of New-Onset Diabetes After...

Intervention policies, like stay-at-home orders, are shown to be effective in controlling the spread of the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, concerns over economic burdens of these policies have propelled U.S. states to move towards reopening. Decision-making in most states...