The positive and negative influence of search results on people's decisions about the efficacy of medical treatments

FA Pogacar, A Ghenai, MD Smucker… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
People regularly use web search engines to investigate the efficacy of medical treatments.
Search results can contain documents that present incorrect information that contradicts …

Modelling resource requirements and physician staffing to provide virtual urgent medical care for residents of long-term care homes: a cross-sectional study

F Razak, S Shin, F Pogacar, HY Jung, L Pus… - … Open Access Journal, 2020 - cmajopen.ca
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak increases the importance
of strategies to enhance urgent medical care delivery in long-term care (LTC) facilities that …

Optimizing Inter-Hospital Patient Transfer Decisions During a Pandemic: A Queueing Network Approach

T Chan, F Pogacar, V Sarhangian… - Available at SSRN …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Problem definition: Geographical mismatch between demand for care and availability of
healthcare resources has been a major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, inter…

Operations Research Applications in Ontario's Healthcare System during the COVID-19 Pandemic

FA Pogacar - 2021 - search.proquest.com
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged former norms in hospital operations and motivated
innovative strategies for allocating healthcare resources. We present three strategies for …

Pooling Donations in Human Milk Banks using Machine Learning and Optimization

R Wong - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Human milk is considered the ideal nutrition for preterm infants. Donor milk is collected,
processed and distributed by milk banks. The macronutrient content of donor milk is critical to …

Inverse Optimization and its Applications in Measuring Clinical Pathway Concordance

N Yousefi - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Inverse optimization aims to infer the parameters of an optimization problem given a set of
observed decisions that are assumed to be optimal or minimally suboptimal. In this thesis, we …

[BOOK][B] Learning to Solve Optimization Problems with Hidden Components: Applications in Automated Treatment Planning

R Mahmood - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Designing optimization models that capture decision-maker preferences typically requires
guidance from domain experts. We can instead employ machine learning (ML) to design …

[PDF][PDF] Exposure and order effects of misinformation on health search decisions

M Abualsaud, MD Smucker - … of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR …, 2019 - mustafa-s.com
… In this paper, we examine click data from the controlled experiment by Pogacar et al. [9]
to understand users’ clicking behavior and its relation to their final decision. Our goal is to …

A think-aloud study to understand factors affecting online health search

A Ghenai, MD Smucker, CLA Clarke - … of the 2020 conference on human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
… The work proposed in this paper builds directly on that of Pogacar et al. [25]’s work. The key
finding of that study is that search results can have a substantial and statistically significant …

Ethically deployed defaults: Transparency and consumer protection through disclosure and preference articulation

…, EF Williams, R Pogacar - Journal of Marketing …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Defaults are extremely effective at covertly guiding choices, which raises concerns about
how to employ them ethically and responsibly. Consumer advocates have proposed that …