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Thank you for your participation today. Your responses will be used to do academic research in effort to help improve hospital operations. We appreciate you taking your time and giving this your full consideration.

In this simulation, you will be playing the role of a surgeon.
For each surgery you are assigned, the hospital needs to schedule time in a hospital operating room for you.
Therefore, your task will be to use information that you have to help the hospital predict how long each surgery will take.

Reward

In addition to the fixed reward of {{ fixed_payoff }}, you receive a bonus reward based on the quality of your surgery prediction. The closer your surgery prediction is to the actual duration, the higher is your bonus reward.

The bonus reward is calculated based on the forecast error, that is, the absolute difference between your forecast and the actual demand divided by the actual demand:

\[\text{forecast error} = {|\text{your surgery duration prediction} - \text{actual surgery duration}| \over \text{actual surgery duration}}\]
For each surgery, you earn \(${{ max_payoff_per_product }} * (1 – \text{forecast error})\). This bonus reward cannot be negative.

Each surgery that you do may take a different amount of time because every patient and operation is unique.
However, you know there are some characteristics that generally make surgeries shorter or longer.
With all else equal, surgeries are typically...

1. longer if they have higher procedure set-up requirements (procedure set-up requirements range from: 0 = least to 10 = highest)
2. longer if they require more complex anesthesia (complexity score ranges from: -5 = least complex to 5 = most complex)
3. longer if they have higher anesthesia set-up requirements (anesthesia set-up requirements ranges from: 0 = least to 10 = highest)
If you have understood your task and are ready to answer the comprehension questions, please click “Next”.
Please note that you cannot return to this page, and need to answer the comprehension questions correctly in order to complete this HIT.

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