Supplement to Application to Benchmarking  Chapter

Assignment

Question 1: In the following questions assume that we have followed two clinicians, Smith and Jones, and constructed the decision trees in Figure 1. Atoosa's Video►

Figure 1:  Practice Patterns of Dr. Jones and Smith

• What is the expected length of stay for each of the clinicians?
• What is the expected length of stay for Dr. Smith if he were to take care of patients of Dr. Jones?
• What is the expected length of stay for Dr. Jones if he were to take of patients of Dr. Smith?