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SA10 - SP1: Snap Presentation: Decision making for social benefits
Time:
Sunday, 25/June/2023:
SA 8:00-9:30
Location:Mont Royal I
4th floor
Presentations
To err is human: a field experiment in nudging doctors away from prescribing drug-to-drug interactions
Xiaodan Shao, Vivek Choudhary
Nanyang Business School, NTU, Singapore
Drug-drug interactions (DDI) are common medical errors due to the negative interaction of medicines taken by a patient. up to 96% instances, doctors ignore the even the mandatory DDI alerts, leading to adverse reactions and poor health outcomes. To solve this issue, we collaborated with a large health-tech firm in India, which conducted a field experiment to identify the impact of real-time information nudges on DDIs. We find that nudges not only reduce DDIs by 8.7% but also promotes learning.
Optimal scheduling of a multi-Clinic healthcare facility in the course of a pandemic
Hossein Piri1, Mahesh Nagarajan2, Steven Shechter2
1University of Calgary, Canada; 2University of British Columbia, Canada
Due to social distancing requirements during the Covid-19 pandemic, the capacity of elevators in high-rise buildings has been reduced by 50-70%. This reduction in capacity has led to queue build-ups, making it difficult to maintain social distancing in the lobby and increasing the risk of disease transmission.
The objective of this work is to minimize elevator wait times in a multi-clinic facility by optimizing the clinic scheduling.
