Proactive Inpatient Bed Requests for Emergency Department Admissions

arXiv:2607.15432 · stat.AP, cs.LG, math.OC, stat.ML, stat.OT · Submitted 2026-07-16 · Read on arXiv

QIan Cheng, Nilay Tanik Argon, Aniruddhan Ganesaraman, Serhan Ziya

stat.AP, cs.LG, math.OC, stat.ML, stat.OT

Submitted: 2026-07-16

Comments: 51 pages, 8 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 14× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Current Practice — 7× in this paper
• Q-learning — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Emergency Severity Index — 3× in this paper
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Greedy Policy — 3× in this paper
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• American College of Emergency Physicians — 2× in this paper
• MDP-Based Heuristic Policy — 2× in this paper
• Newsvendor Heuristic Policy — 2× in this paper
• Pandemic Response Scenario — 2× in this paper
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 2× in this paper · explained in 26 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — 1× in this paper
• Computational Efficiency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational Tractability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Curse of Dimensionality — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Approaches — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Monotonicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Predictive Modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Standard Operations Scenario — 1× in this paper

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