Health systems are placing increasing emphasis on improving the design and operation of clinical trials, with the aim of making the health technology adoption process more value-based. We present a model of a value-based two-armed clinical trial in which both the recruitment rate and trial...

We study the employee staffing problem in a service organization that uses employee service capacity to meet random, nonstationary service requirements. The employees experience learning and turnover on the job, and we develop a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model which explicitly represents the...