Research Ideas
Researchers of interest
Tasks
- Queueing paper: value of information
- Cheng’s paper editing
- OR Letter paper editing
- EJOR paper editing
- Chinook paper
Ongoing
- FT routing paper: writing, new simulation, conclusion submit by January 2021
- FT routing modeling paper: proof of results; try different patient classifications and compare their performances (by admit, LOS, chance of FT)
- Perhanps we can consider a shadow patient, with a focus on CTAS3, or patients in the middle. Refer to two papers in Notability.
- Medical paper: the impact of ED census on ED decision making
- ED staffing with PPH: waiting time estimation
Next step
- ED patient prioritization
- Choice model: waiting for room (patient chosen by nurses)
- Choice model: initial assessment (patient chosen by physicians)
- Non-aligned objectives might lead to inefficiency
- ED double bottlenecks: Bed + Physicians
- Stochastic modeling (SOQN, Jia and Heragu 2009, Operations Research)
- Fluid model (MMFQ, Carmen et al. 2018, EJOR)
- Perturbation analysis
- So-what: ED surging plan
- ED specialist: stochastic clearing system [PDF]
- With Lishuai:
- Drone delivery
- Data from Cathy Pacific: optimize then predict
- Clean energy with Xiaowei