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Hospitals in the United States find it difficult to meet patient demand in a timely manner. They look for solutions that would better allow them to manage patient flow, and at the same time avoid allocating more resources than necessary. This research has two main objectives. Th…

Geographic cohorting (GC) is an increasingly common strategy for placement of general medicine (GM) patients by physically co-locating all patients cared for by a given medical team to the same unit in the hospital. In some circumstances, this approach has been shown to improve …