Among the endless number of decisions faced by those who run infusion centers, perhaps none is more hotly debated than what the “best” way is to assign patients to nurses. Over the last six years, my ...

Reliable identification of the physician–patient relationship is necessary for accurate evaluation. Standardization of evidence-based attribution methods is essential to improve the value of ...

The nurse-patient assignment process for infusion centers is a critical component of patient care. However, the manual assignment methods used at most infusion centers are inefficient, add ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...

In traditional schedule or dose–schedule finding designs, patients are assumed to receive their assigned dose–schedule combination throughout the trial even though the combination may be found to have ...