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Papers

(The median citation count of Health Care Management Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	29
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	28
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	28
Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation	20
Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients	17
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	15
A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America	14
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	12
Optimizing diabetes screening frequencies for at-risk groups	11
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	11
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	11
A change-point method for multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring using weighted multivariate functional principal component analysis	10
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	10
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	10
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	10
A two-stage robust optimization approach for the master surgical schedule problem under uncertainty considering downstream resources	10
Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	9
What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	9
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	9
Health care management science for underserved populations	9
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	8
Optimal quality oversight in kidney transplantation and its impact on transplant centers’ waitlist management	8
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022	7
Identification of predictors and model for predicting prolonged length of stay in dengue patients	7
A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	7

Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans	7
A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework	7
A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	7
Enhanced coverage by integrating site interdependencies in capacitated EMS location models	6
Visualisation of Data Envelopment Analysis in primary health services	6
A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling	6
A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	6
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	6
A two-phase approach for the Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem	6
A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan	6
A tactical multi-week implicit tour scheduling model with applications in healthcare	6
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	6
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	6
Online scheduling using a fixed template: the case of outpatient chemotherapy drug administration	5
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	5
A novel two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for kidney allocation problem under medical and logistical uncertainty: a real case study	5
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	5
Non-linear missing data imputation for healthcare data via index-aware autoencoders	5
On integrating patient appointment grids and technologist schedules in a radiology center	5
A reinforcement learning approach for the online dynamic home health care scheduling problem	4
Monitoring policy in the context of preventive treatment of cardiovascular disease	4
Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data	4
Strategic placement of volunteer responder system defibrillators	4
Examining chronic kidney disease screening frequency among diabetics: a POMDP approach	4
A two-stage partial fixing approach for solving the residency block scheduling problem	4
Optimization of the stroke hospital selection strategy and the distribution of endovascular thrombectomy resources	4
On the timing and probability of Presurgical Teledermatology: how it becomes the dominant strategy	4
The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: Evidence from an intervention in Boston	4
A queuing model for ventilator capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The benefits (or detriments) of adapting to demand disruptions in a hospital pharmacy with supply chain disruptions	3
Determining optimal COVID-19 testing center locations and capacities	3
Combining machine learning and optimization for the operational patient-bed assignment problem	3
Health care management science - best paper of 2023	3
Prospective adverse event risk evaluation in clinical trials	3
Point-of-use hospital inventory management with inaccurate usage capture	3
Bayesian prediction of emergency department wait time	3
Data in ambulatory care logistics: What modelers need and what practice can offer	3
Correction to: Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 h of emergency department patients with unstructured text data	2
Unsupervised learning methods for efficient geographic clustering and identification of disease disparities with applications to county-level colorectal cancer incidence in California	2
Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	2
Managing surgical waiting lists through dynamic priority scoring	2
Managing low–acuity patients in an Emergency Department through simulation–based multiobjective optimization using a neural network metamodel	2
Correction to: Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	2
A compartmental modelling methodology to support strategic decision making for managing the elective hospital waiting list; application in England’s NHS	2
Effectiveness of feedback control and the trade-off between death by COVID-19 and costs of countermeasures	2
Streamlining emergency department workflow: reducing length of stay with congestion-triggered standing orders	2
Performance measurement of nonhomogeneous Hong Kong hospitals using directional distance functions	2
Intraday dynamic rescheduling under patient no-shows	2
Generating simple classification rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations	2
Evaluating machine learning model bias and racial disparities in non-small cell lung cancer using SEER registry data	2

Hospital volume allocation: integrating decision maker and patient perspectives	2
Stroke care networks and the impact on quality of care	2
Managing a multi-panel clinic with heterogeneous patients	2
Looking for the crystal ball in unscheduled care: a systematic literature review of the forecasting process	2
A two-stage stochastic optimization framework to allocate operating room capacity in publicly-funded hospitals under uncertainty	2
A mixed-integer slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis for efficiency measuring of German university hospitals	2