Improving the performance of the healthcare sector requires an understanding of the effectiveness and efficiency of care delivered by providers. Although this topic is of great interest to policymakers, researchers, and hospital managers, rigorous methods of measuring effectiveness and...

Understanding potential channels through which physicians impact each other's performance can yield new insights into better management of hospitals' operations. We use evidence from Emergency Medicine to study whether and how physicians who work alongside each other during the same shifts...

As a major public health crisis, the opioid epidemic caused over 556,000 deaths in the U.S. between 2000 and 2020. To control the epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed some general guidelines, encouraging physicians to use opioid medications only when their...

We present a novel framework to characterize the probability that an offered appointment with k-days' access delay will be booked and subsequently attended by a patient. We refer to this probability as the "probability of realization'" of an offered appointment, and demonstrate how empirical...

A main research goal in various studies is to use an observational data set and provide a new set of counterfactual guidelines that can yield causal improvements. Dynamic Treatment Regimes (DTRs) are widely studied to formalize this process and enable researchers to find guidelines that are both...