The model allocates doctors to one of three risk categories on the basis of various determinants of fatigue.
For example, in a trial of an educational intervention aimed at doctors, allocating doctors together with their patients permits inferences about the intervention's effects on doctors as well as on their patients.
What the politicians failed to appreciate, mainly because it seems that those running the NHS don't understand it themselves, is that the cost allocated to doctors' time within a contract has significant consequences.
Unlike how it is portrayed in "Heartbeat," there is a very systematic process to how donor hearts are allocated, and doctors have no influence over this process even if a suitable organ becomes available in their hospital.
In addition patients allocated to doctors had slightly higher costs in both primary and secondary care.
Public funding is a finite source which is allocated between doctors and PCWs through a political bargaining process between the two categories of health workers vying for a finite pot of governmental health funds.
During data collection, patients (controls) were allocated to doctors (cases) by the specialist registrar in charge of the unit (based on multiple factors, including patients' diagnoses and overall complexity, and the interests and experience of the available doctors), as normal; whenever practical, doctors do not clerk the same patient two days in a row.
This is particularly concerning, as Stewart had only allocated one doctor and seven nurses to provide medical care for over 1,750 detained individuals.
There are similar hubs from Exeter in the South-west to London to the North-east, and each has an allocated physiotherapist, doctor and soft-tissue therapist.
The inverse effect of number of doctors on effectiveness could imply that the large facilities do not allocate enough doctors to the outpatient department and hence perform poorly in effectiveness.
Resource allocation: doctors and patients can remote allocate resources (IRM, scanner...).
