Optimizing Intensive Care Unit Discharge Decisions with Patient Readmissions

This work examines the impact of discharge decisions under uncertainty in a capacity-constrained high-risk setting: the intensive care unit (ICU). New arrivals to an ICU are typically very high-priority patients and, should the ICU be full upon their arrival, discharging a patient currently residing...

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Main Authors: Chan, Carri W., Farias, Vivek F., Bambos, Nicholas, Escobar, Gabriel J.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87734
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5856-9246