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Optimal Scheduling of Proactive Service with Customer Deterioration and Improvement by Hu, Yue, Chan, Carri W., Dong, Jing

“…Service systems are typically limited resource environments where scarce capacity is reserved for the most urgent customers. However, there has been a growing…”
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ICU Admission Control: An Empirical Study of Capacity Allocation and Its Implication for Patient Outcomes by Kim, Song-Hee, Chan, Carri W., Olivares, Marcelo, Escobar, Gabriel

“…This work examines the process of admission to a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU). ICUs currently lack systematic admission criteria, largely because the…”
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Critical Care Capacity Management: Understanding the Role of a Step Down Unit by Armony, Mor, Chan, Carri W., Zhu, Bo

“…In hospitals, Step Down Units (SDUs) provide an intermediate level of care between the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and the general medical‐surgical wards…”
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The Impact of Delays on Service Times in the Intensive Care Unit by Chan, Carri W., Farias, Vivek F., Escobar, Gabriel J.

“…Mainstream queueing models are frequently employed in modeling healthcare delivery in a number of settings, and they further are used in making operational…”
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Should Hospitals Keep Their Patients Longer? The Role of Inpatient Care in Reducing Postdischarge Mortality by Bartel, Ann P., Chan, Carri W., Kim, Song-Hee

“…The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Quality Forum have endorsed the 30-day mortality rate as an important indicator of hospital…”
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When to Use Speedup: An Examination of Service Systems with Returns by Chan, Carri W., Yom-Tov, Galit, Escobar, Gabriel

“…In a number of service systems, there can be substantial latitude to vary service rates. However, although speeding up service rate during periods of…”
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Assessing the Impact of Service Level When Customer Needs Are Uncertain: An Empirical Investigation of Hospital Step-Down Units by Chan, Carri W, Green, Linda V, Lekwijit, Suparerk, Lu, Lijian, Escobar, Gabriel

“…Many service systems have servers with different capabilities and customers with varying needs. One common way this occurs is when servers are hierarchical in…”
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Optimizing Intensive Care Unit Discharge Decisions with Patient Readmissions by Chan, Carri W., Farias, Vivek F., Bambos, Nicholas, Escobar, Gabriel J.

“…This work examines the impact of discharge decisions under uncertainty in a capacity-constrained high-risk setting: the intensive care unit (ICU). New arrivals…”
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Queues with Time-Varying Arrivals and Inspections with Applications to Hospital Discharge Policies by Chan, Carri W., Dong, Jing, Green, Linda V.

“…In order for a patient to be discharged from a hospital unit, a physician must first perform a physical examination and review the pertinent medical…”
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Utilizing partial flexibility to improve emergency department flow: Theory and implementation by Chan, Carri W., Sarhangian, Vahid, Talwai, Prem, Gogia, Kriti

“…Emergency departments (EDs) typically have multiple areas where patients of different acuity levels receive treatments. In practice, different areas often…”
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Use of Real-Time Information to Predict Future Arrivals in the Emergency Department by Hu, Yue, Cato, Kenrick D., Chan, Carri W., Dong, Jing, Gavin, Nicholas, Rossetti, Sarah C., Chang, Bernard P.

“…We aimed to build prediction models for shift-level emergency department (ED) patient volume that could be used to facilitate prediction-driven staffing. We…”
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Association Among ICU Congestion, ICU Admission Decision, and Patient Outcomes by Kim, Song-Hee, Chan, Carri W., Olivares, Marcelo, Escobar, Gabriel J.

“…OBJECTIVES:To employ automated bed data to examine whether ICU occupancy influences ICU admission decisions and patient outcomes. DESIGN:Retrospective study…”
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The Impact of Adding a Physician Assistant to a Critical Care Outreach Team by Gershengorn, Hayley B, Xu, Yunchao, Chan, Carri W, Armony, Mor, Gong, Michelle N

“…Hospitals are increasingly using critical care outreach teams (CCOTs) to respond to patients deteriorating outside intensive care units (ICUs). CCOT staffing…”
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Beyond order‐based nursing workload: A retrospective cohort study in intensive care units by Chen, Yi, Chan, Carri W., Dong, Jing, Jackson, Emily M., Yip, Natalie H., Rossetti, Sarah C.

“…Introduction In order to be positioned to address the increasing strain of burnout and worsening nurse shortage, a better understanding of factors that…”
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Channel, deadline, and distortion (C D2) aware scheduling for video streams over wireless by Dua, Aditya, Chan, Carri W., Bambos, Nicholas, Apostolopoulos, John

“…We study scheduling of multimedia traffic on the downlink of a wireless communication system. We examine a scenario where multimedia packets are associated…”
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Balancing admission control, speedup, and waiting in service systems by Yom-Tov, Galit B., Chan, Carri W.

“…Admission control and service rate speedup may be used during periods of congestion to minimize customer waiting in different service settings. In a healthcare…”
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Maximum weight matching with hysteresis in overloaded queues with setups by Chan, Carri W., Armony, Mor, Bambos, Nicholas

“…We consider a system of parallel queues where arriving service tasks are buffered, according to type. Available service resources are dynamically configured…”
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Scheduling Queues with Simultaneous and Heterogeneous Requirements from Multiple Types of Servers by Zychlinski, Noa, Chan, Carri W., Dong, Jing

“…We study the scheduling of a new class of multi-class multi-pool queueing systems where different classes of customers have heterogeneous - in terms of the…”
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Incorporating Longitudinal Comorbidity and Acute Physiology Data in Template Matching for Assessing Hospital Quality: An Exploratory Study in an Integrated Health Care Delivery System by Hu, Wenqi, Chan, Carri W, Zubizarreta, José R, Escobar, Gabriel J

“…OBJECTIVE:We sought to build on the template-matching methodology by incorporating longitudinal comorbidities and acute physiology to audit hospital quality…”
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The Impact of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Use on Patient Mortality and the Availability of Mechanical Ventilators in COVID-19 by Gershengorn, Hayley B, Hu, Yue, Chen, Jen-Ting, Hsieh, S Jean, Dong, Jing, Gong, Michelle Ng, Chan, Carri W

“…How to provide advanced respiratory support for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to maximize population-level survival while optimizing mechanical ventilator…”
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