题目：Variation in admission decisions in Emergency Departments:  Preliminary Results from estimation methods and field experiments

时间：9月25日 10:00-11:30

地点：中欧平台武东路校区114

演讲者：Mahesh Nagarajan, Professor, University of British Columbia

摘要：Variation in clinical and operational decisions among health care professionals is well documented. The impact of these variations have significant consequences to operational efficiency, cost and perhaps most importantly the quality of care. We study one such variation, i.e., admissions decisions by emergency department physicians in 4 hospitals. We explore the underlying reasons for these variations using both a theoretical stochastic control model as well as a behavioral decision model.   In doing so, using the framework of prospect theory, we devise a compact, robust and easy to use parameter elicitation procedure that fits the relevant parameters of an individual decision maker. We compare our procedure across other well-known but more cumbersome methods. Using our estimates, we explore several intervention strategies and test them using ongoing field experiments.

演讲者简介：Mahesh Nagarajan is a professor of operations research at the Sauder school of business. He holds the alumni chair of stochastic optimization and is the division chair of the operations and logistics division. His research interests include stochastic inventory theory, cooperative game theory, algorithmic game theory and application of infinite dimensional optimization to mechanism design problems and more recently some health care operations.