OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 scenario modelling for the mitigation of capacity-dependent deaths in intensive care	52
Balancing scarce hospital resources during the COVID-19 pandemic using discrete-event simulation	50
From predictions to prescriptions: A data-driven response to COVID-19	44
Aligning SARS-CoV-2 indicators via an epidemic model: application to hospital admissions and RNA detection in sewage sludge	37
Personalized treatment for coronary artery disease patients: a machine learning approach	35
Assessing the efficiency of Malaysia health system in COVID-19 prevention and treatment response	31
A multi-stage stochastic programming approach to epidemic resource allocation with equity considerations	30
Real-time forecasting of COVID-19 bed occupancy in wards and Intensive Care Units	27
Transforming COVID-19 vaccines into vaccination	25
Selecting pharmacies for COVID-19 testing to ensure access	25
Repeat SARS-CoV-2 testing models for residential college populations	23
A two-stage robust optimization approach for the master surgical schedule problem under uncertainty considering downstream resources	19
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	18
Towards a more efficient healthcare system: Opportunities and challenges caused by hospital closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Scheduling patient appointment in an infusion center: a mixed integer robust optimization approach	16
Investigating the link between medical urgency and hospital efficiency – Insights from the German hospital market	14
An integrated quality and resilience engineering framework in healthcare with Z-number data envelopment analysis	14
An artificial neural network based mathematical model for a stochastic health care facility location problem	13
The impact of quality on hospital choice. Which information affects patients’ behavior for colorectal resection or knee replacement?	12
Home care vehicle routing problem with chargeable overtime and strict and soft preference matching	11
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	11
Point-of-use hospital inventory management with inaccurate usage capture	10
Using data envelopment analysis and the bootstrap method to evaluate organ transplantation efficiency in Brazil	10
Identification of predictors and model for predicting prolonged length of stay in dengue patients	10
Prediction of personal protective equipment use in hospitals during COVID-19	9

Managing admission and discharge processes in intensive care units	9
The effect of correlation and false negatives in pool testing strategies for COVID-19	9
Does hospital competition lead to medical equipment expansion? Evidence on the medical arms race	9
Managing capacity for virtual and office appointments in chronic care	9
Beyond COVID-19 deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	9
A stochastic risk-averse framework for blood donation appointment scheduling under uncertain donor arrivals	9
Patients, primary care, and policy: Agent-based simulation modeling for health care decision support	8
Personalized prescription of ACEI/ARBs for hypertensive COVID-19 patients	8
Bibliometric analysis of cancer care operations management: current status, developments, and future directions	8
Agent-based evolving network modeling: a new simulation method for modeling low prevalence infectious diseases	8
A robust optimization model for tactical capacity planning in an outpatient setting	8
Stochastic programming for outpatient scheduling with flexible inpatient exam accommodation	8
Modeling patients as decision making units: evaluating the efficiency of kidney transplantation through data envelopment analysis	7
A Markov chain model for analysis of physician workflow in primary care clinics	7
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	6
Introduction to the special issue: Management Science in the Fight Against Covid-19	6
Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans	6
Enhanced coverage by integrating site interdependencies in capacitated EMS location models	6
Efficiency, quality, and management practices in health facilities providing outpatient HIV services in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia	6
Leveraging electronic health record data to inform hospital resource management	5
Predicting no-show appointments in a pediatric hospital in Chile using machine learning	5
Covid-19 triage in the emergency department 2.0: how analytics and AI transform a human-made algorithm for the prediction of clinical pathways	5
Optimal cholesterol treatment plans and genetic testing strategies for cardiovascular diseases	5
A two-phase approach for the Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem	5
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	5
What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	5
A heuristic approach to the task planning problem in a home care business	5
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	4
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	4
Tackling maternal mortality by improving technical efficiency in the production of primary health services: longitudinal evidence from the Mexican case	4
Monitoring of high-yield and periodical processes in health care	4
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the performance of organ transplant services using data envelopment analysis	4
A case for location based contact tracing	4
A scheduling-based methodology for improving patient perceptions of quality of care in intensive care units	4
Are patients more adherent to newer drugs?	4
Predicting drug shortages using pharmacy data and machine learning	4
Association between leniency of anesthesiologists when evaluating certified registered nurse anesthetists and when evaluating didactic lectures	4
Balancing control and autonomy in master surgery scheduling: Benefits of ICU quotas for recovery units	4
Optimal patient protocols in regional acute stroke care	4
The development and deployment of a model for hospital-level COVID-19 associated patient demand intervals from consistent estimators (DICE)	3
Stroke care networks and the impact on quality of care	3
Aiding the prescriber: developing a machine learning approach to personalized risk modeling for chronic opioid therapy amongst US Army soldiers	3
Managing access to primary care clinics using scheduling templates	3
On the use of partitioning for scheduling of surgeries in the inpatient surgical department	3
Managing surgical waiting lists through dynamic priority scoring	3
Quantile regression forests for individualized surgery scheduling	3
Predicting and improving patient-level antibiotic adherence	3
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	3
A mixed-integer slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis for efficiency measuring of German university hospitals	3
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	3

A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	3
Optimization-driven framework to understand health care network costs and resource allocation	3
An integer programming model to assign patients based on mental health impact for tele-psychotherapy intervention during the Covid–19 emergency	3
Process mining to discover patterns in patient outcomes in a Psychological Therapies Service	3
Optimal cost adjustment for a selfish routing healthcare network	3
Effectiveness of feedback control and the trade-off between death by COVID-19 and costs of countermeasures	3
Optimal portfolios of blood safety interventions: test, defer or modify?	2
Forecasting ward-level bed requirements to aid pandemic resource planning: Lessons learned and future directions	2
Predicting rapid progression phases in glaucoma using a soft voting ensemble classifier exploiting Kalman filtering	2
The Waiting Game – How Cooperation Between Public and Private Hospitals Can Help Reduce Waiting Lists	2
A quantitative analysis of risk-sharing agreements with patient support programs for improving medication adherence	2
Non-linear missing data imputation for healthcare data via index-aware autoencoders	2
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	2
A queuing model for ventilator capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Optimizing diabetes screening frequencies for at-risk groups	2
Developing an Institute for Health Care Delivery Science: successes, challenges, and solutions in the first five years	2
Who should see the patient? on deviations from preferred patient-provider assignments in hospitals	2
Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 hours of emergency department patients with unstructured text data	2
The influence of service quality and anticipated emotions on donor loyalty: an empirical analysis in blood centres in Spain	2
Performance measurement of nonhomogeneous Hong Kong hospitals using directional distance functions	2