Timing it right: balancing inpatient congestion vs. readmission risk at discharge

DOI10.1287/OPRE.2020.2044MaRDI QIDQ5031668zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pengyishi, Jonathan E. Helm, Jivan Deglise-Hawkinson, Julian Pan

Publication date 16 February 2022

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2020.2044

zbMATH Keywords

approximation algorithmsinpatient flow managementlarge-scale Markov decision process (MDP)readmission riskstate-dependent dischargetool implementation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40) Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59)

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