Vahdat V, et al. – In view of addressing prolonged lengths of stay (LOS) in ambulatory care clinics, researchers analyzed the impact of implementing flexible and dynamic policies for assigning exam rooms to providers. Observations suggested that it is not necessary to fully share rooms among providers in order to reduce patient LOS and physician idle time. Instead, most of the benefit of pooling could be achieved by implementation of a compromise room allocation approach, limiting the need for significant organizational changes within the clinic. In addition, they highlighted the necessity for increasing flexibility in the two dimensions simultaneously to achieve most of the benefits of room allocation policies. These findings seemed consistent in settings with alternate patient scheduling and distinctions between physicians.