Texas, like some other states, bars most hospitals from employing physicians directly, said Allison Winnike, a University of Houston health law professor. "The idea is to keep the physicians independent from the hospital so they could act on what's best for the patient and not what's best ...
Taking a Texas Medical Center in Houston into account, Kapadia and colleagues model the flow of patients in a pediatric intensive care unit using a discrete Markovian process [9]. The aim of their work is to represent the flow of patients in relation to their illness (measured through the ...