Table 1.

Popularity of different methods and data availability for each of these problems.

	ED-admission problem
	Volume pred.	Readmission pred.	Priority rank	Schedule
Labelled datatset readily available?	$✓$	$✓$	✗	$✓$
Regression methods popular?	$✓$	$✓$	$✓$	✗
Classification methods popular?	$✓$	$✓$	$✓$	$✓$
Genetic methods popular?	✗	✗	✗	$✓$