Flexibility in trial enrolment decisions

Involving patients in enrolment decisions for acute myocardial infarction trials.

Pricing and scheduling decisions with leadtime flexibility

This paper studies a problem faced by a manufacturer who has the ability to set prices to influence demand, reject orders, and set leadtimes or due-dates for accepted orders. We present decision models that integrate pricing and production decisions for the cases where the manufacturer charges the same price or different prices to different customers. Through numerical analyses, we present insi...

Information extraction of eligibility criteria for trial enrolment support

Rapid and efficient identification of patients eligible for clinical trials is on the critical path to the effective treatment of patients in a radiation oncology clinical setting. However, the Trial Physician Assistants (TPAs) that perform this work must read through many unstructured documents that have been received from regional hospitals and scanned in. The TPA must be familiar with a larg...

Flexibility of Household Structure Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

Using data I collected in Africa, this paper examines a household’s decision to adjust its size through child fostering, an institution where biological parents temporarily send children to live with other families. Households experiencing negative idiosyncratic income shocks, child gender imbalances, located further from primary schools, or with more ‘‘good’’ quality network members (fewer sub...

Quantity Flexibility Contracts: Optimal Decisions with Information Updates