About

Daniel Adelman is a leading expert in Business Analytics, helping companies deploy data and decision analysis to build world-class strategic and tactical management capabilities. By integrating real world data with analytical models, and bringing structure and discipline to decision and control processes, firms can achieve higher profits with lower risk, and attain competitive advantage. Adelman's research is based on interactions with firms from a variety of industries, including internet services, chemical distribution, airlines, third party logistics, fiber-optics manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing, oil, and healthcare. He leads the Healthcare Analytics Laboratory at Chicago Booth, working with teams of doctoral and MBA students on a portfolio of projects with major healthcare institutions to optimize clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.

Research topics

• Nursing
• Medicine
• Psychology
• Operations management
• Engineering
• Internal medicine
• Business

Selected publications

• Operative Team Familiarity and Specialization at an Academic Medical Center

  Annals of Surgery · 2022-07-06 · 4 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: To propose a framework for quantification of surgical team familiarity. BACKGROUND: Operating room (OR) teamwork quality is associated with familiarity among team members and their individual specialization. We describe novel measures of OR team familiarity and specialty experience. METHODS: Surgeon-scrub (SS) and surgeon-circulator (SC) teaming scores, defined as the pair's proportion of interactions relative to the surgeon's total cases in the preceding 6 months were calculated between 2017 and 2021 at an academic medical center. Nurse service-line (SL) experience scores were defined as the proportion of a nurse's cases performed within the given specialty. SS, SC, and nurse-SL scores were analyzed by specialty, case urgency, robotic approach, and surgeon academic rank. Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests were used to determine heterogeneity between distributions. RESULTS: A total of 37,364 operations involving 150 attending surgeons and 222 nurses were analyzed. Median SS and SC scores were 0.08 (interquartile range: 0.03-0.19) and 0.06 (interquartile range: 0.03-0.13), respectively. Higher margin SLs, senior faculty rank, elective, and robotic cases were associated with greater SS, SC, and nurse-SL scores ( P <0.001). CONCLUSIONS: These novel measures of teaming and specialization illustrate the low levels of OR team familiarity and objectively highlight differences that necessitate a deliberate evaluation of current OR scheduling practices.

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• A Systematic Review of Operative Team Familiarity on Metrics of Efficiency, Patient Outcomes, Cost, and Team Satisfaction

  Annals of Surgery · 2022 · 23 citations

  • Medicine
  • Nursing

  OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to systematically review the current literature on how surgical team familiarity relates to metrics of operative efficiency. BACKGROUND: The operating room (OR) is a complex environment involving numerous multidisciplinary interactions that must interface precisely to achieve a successful outcome. METHODS: A systematic search of the PubMed database was prospectively registered in the National Institute for Health Research PROSPERO database (CRD 42020181046) and performed according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Exposure variable was team familiarity and outcome measures included operative efficiency, patient outcomes, costs, and/or team satisfaction. RESULTS: Of 1123 articles screened, 15 studies involving 24,340 operations met inclusion criteria. All studies were limited to an individual specialty, procedure, or both. The effects of more familiar teams were most pronounced in decreasing operative times [standardized mean difference of -0.51 (95% confidence interval: -1.00, -0.02), P =0.04], whereas the reported impacts on patient clinical outcomes, material waste, and team satisfaction were much more heterogenous. CONCLUSIONS: Improving OR team familiarity is associated with superior operative efficiency and may be associated with other favorable measures. Further inferences are limited by literature heterogeneity, yet could be a novel focus for improving OR performance.

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• Measuring Healthcare Worker Satisfaction in the Operating Room

  Annals of Surgery Open · 2022 · 2 citations

  • Operations management
  • Nursing
  • Business

  MINI-ABSTRACT: This report highlights the efficacy of using a 5-point Likert scale to measure healthcare worker satisfaction in the operating room. This assessment is significant because it is a critical step in assessing a novel scheduling apparatus that hopes to improve team satisfaction, operative efficiency, and operating room waste.

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• Surgical team familiarity and waste generation in the operating room

  The American Journal of Surgery · 2021 · 23 citations

  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Internal medicine
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• 64 Photodynamic therapy of atherosclerotic plaque: Will it work?

  Radiotherapy and Oncology · 2000-05-01

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• Preference reversal and the independence axiom

  OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · 1992-01-01 · 20 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  In his article "Dynamic Consistency and Non-Expected Utility '

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Frequent coauthors

• Kiran K. Turaga

  Yale Cancer Center

  4 shared

• Hunter D. D. Witmer

  Yale University

  4 shared

• Çağla Keçeli

  University of Chicago

  3 shared

• Ankit Dhiman

  Augusta University

  2 shared

• Mihai Giurcanu

  University of Chicago

  2 shared

• Alonzo D. Jones

  University of Chicago

  2 shared

• Alison M. Laffan

  University of Chicago

  1 shared

• Jeffrey B. Matthews

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• George B. Dantzig Prize