RAND: James R. Broyles 2013-04-20T17:42:39Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/broyles_james_r.html A Statistical Markov Chain Approximation of Transient Hospital Inpatient Inventory http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100146.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Predicting hospital inpatient inventories presents special statistical challenges. A Markov Decision Process to Dynamically Match Hospital Inpatient Staffing to Demand http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100229.html 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z This paper applies a Markov decision process to the challenge of matching hospital staffing levels to inpatient demand. Bridging the Gap http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR764z1.html 2012-10-12T13:45:00Z 2012-10-12T13:45:00Z RAND researchers developed an initial prototype tool to help determine capabilities and resources a locality will likely require during a disaster. The report also describes two social networking tools for local coordination of disaster preparedness. A Queuing-Base Statistical Approximation of Hospital Emergency Department Boarding http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50216.html 2011-10-01T12:00:00Z 2011-10-01T12:00:00Z A hospital Emergency Department's(ED's) wait times can be driven by high occupancy in its downstream InPatient hospital (IP). Developing Nonlinear Queuing Regressions to Increase Emergency Department Patient Safety http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100147.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Strategic decisionmaking about the capacity of emergency departments should be based on measures of patient safety, such as the number of patients who leave without treatment because of ED crowding. Cataract Blindness and Simulation-Based Training for Cataract Surgeons http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1303.html 2013-02-21T17:00:00Z 2013-02-21T17:00:00Z HelpMeSee Inc. is developing a simulator-based method for rapid cataract surgical training that RAND researchers determined could significantly help to close the backlog of cataract surgical cases, expected to reach 32 million globally by 2020. Modeling Employer Self-Insurance Decisions After the Affordable Care Act http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51287.html 2013-01-01T12:00:00Z 2013-01-01T12:00:00Z Self-insurance rates will increase among small firms only under the hypothetical situation that generous stop-loss policies are available to them after implementation of the ACA. Even if many small firms choose to self insure under this situation, it will not increase the premiums charged in the insurance exchanges by more than a few tenths of a percent.