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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Balancing scarce hospital resources during the COVID-19 pandemic using discrete-event simulation	56
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	38
Personalized treatment for coronary artery disease patients: a machine learning approach	36
Assessing the efficiency of Malaysia health system in COVID-19 prevention and treatment response	33
A multi-stage stochastic programming approach to epidemic resource allocation with equity considerations	32
Real-time forecasting of COVID-19 bed occupancy in wards and Intensive Care Units	30
Selecting pharmacies for COVID-19 testing to ensure access	26
Transforming COVID-19 vaccines into vaccination	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	22
Towards a more efficient healthcare system: Opportunities and challenges caused by hospital closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic	22
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	20
An integrated quality and resilience engineering framework in healthcare with Z-number data envelopment analysis	17
Scheduling patient appointment in an infusion center: a mixed integer robust optimization approach	16
The impact of quality on hospital choice. Which information affects patients’ behavior for colorectal resection or knee replacement?	13
Home care vehicle routing problem with chargeable overtime and strict and soft preference matching	13
An artificial neural network based mathematical model for a stochastic health care facility location problem	13
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	13
Point-of-use hospital inventory management with inaccurate usage capture	13
Prediction of personal protective equipment use in hospitals during COVID-19	12
Managing admission and discharge processes in intensive care units	11
Identification of predictors and model for predicting prolonged length of stay in dengue patients	10
Using data envelopment analysis and the bootstrap method to evaluate organ transplantation efficiency in Brazil	10
Beyond COVID-19 deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	9

A robust optimization model for tactical capacity planning in an outpatient setting	9
Does hospital competition lead to medical equipment expansion? Evidence on the medical arms race	9
The effect of correlation and false negatives in pool testing strategies for COVID-19	9
Managing capacity for virtual and office appointments in chronic care	9
Agent-based evolving network modeling: a new simulation method for modeling low prevalence infectious diseases	8
Stochastic programming for outpatient scheduling with flexible inpatient exam accommodation	8
Bibliometric analysis of cancer care operations management: current status, developments, and future directions	8
Patients, primary care, and policy: Agent-based simulation modeling for health care decision support	8
Predicting no-show appointments in a pediatric hospital in Chile using machine learning	8
Personalized prescription of ACEI/ARBs for hypertensive COVID-19 patients	8
Predicting drug shortages using pharmacy data and machine learning	7
Enhanced coverage by integrating site interdependencies in capacitated EMS location models	7
Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans	6
Covid-19 triage in the emergency department 2.0: how analytics and AI transform a human-made algorithm for the prediction of clinical pathways	6
Introduction to the special issue: Management Science in the Fight Against Covid-19	6
Leveraging electronic health record data to inform hospital resource management	6
A two-phase approach for the Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem	6
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	6
Balancing control and autonomy in master surgery scheduling: Benefits of ICU quotas for recovery units	6
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	6
Efficiency, quality, and management practices in health facilities providing outpatient HIV services in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia	6
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	6
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	5
A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	5
Optimal cholesterol treatment plans and genetic testing strategies for cardiovascular diseases	5
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	5
What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	5
Optimization-driven framework to understand health care network costs and resource allocation	5
Non-linear missing data imputation for healthcare data via index-aware autoencoders	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
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	4
Who should see the patient? on deviations from preferred patient-provider assignments in hospitals	4
Optimal patient protocols in regional acute stroke care	4
Predicting and improving patient-level antibiotic adherence	4
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the performance of organ transplant services using data envelopment analysis	4
A mixed-integer slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis for efficiency measuring of German university hospitals	4
Managing surgical waiting lists through dynamic priority scoring	4
Aiding the prescriber: developing a machine learning approach to personalized risk modeling for chronic opioid therapy amongst US Army soldiers	3
Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 hours of emergency department patients with unstructured text data	3
Process mining to discover patterns in patient outcomes in a Psychological Therapies Service	3
The development and deployment of a model for hospital-level COVID-19 associated patient demand intervals from consistent estimators (DICE)	3
An integer programming model to assign patients based on mental health impact for tele-psychotherapy intervention during the Covid–19 emergency	3
The Waiting Game – How Cooperation Between Public and Private Hospitals Can Help Reduce Waiting Lists	3
Optimizing diabetes screening frequencies for at-risk groups	3
Quantile regression forests for individualized surgery scheduling	3
Stroke care networks and the impact on quality of care	3
Supporting COVID-19 elective recovery through scalable wait list modelling: Specialty-level application to all hospitals in England	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

Forecasting ward-level bed requirements to aid pandemic resource planning: Lessons learned and future directions	2
A quantitative analysis of risk-sharing agreements with patient support programs for improving medication adherence	2
Performance measurement of nonhomogeneous Hong Kong hospitals using directional distance functions	2
Scheduling mobile dental clinics: A heuristic approach considering fairness among school districts	2
Hospital volume allocation: integrating decision maker and patient perspectives	2
Inverse optimization on hierarchical networks: an application to breast cancer clinical pathways	2
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	2
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	2
A queuing model for ventilator capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Effectiveness of feedback control and the trade-off between death by COVID-19 and costs of countermeasures	2
Developing an Institute for Health Care Delivery Science: successes, challenges, and solutions in the first five years	2
Health information exchange network under collaboration, cooperation, and competition: A game-theoretic approach	2
Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	2
Predicting rapid progression phases in glaucoma using a soft voting ensemble classifier exploiting Kalman filtering	2
The influence of service quality and anticipated emotions on donor loyalty: an empirical analysis in blood centres in Spain	2
Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data	2
Optimal portfolios of blood safety interventions: test, defer or modify?	2
Priority-based replenishment policy for robotic dispensing in central fill pharmacy systems: a simulation-based study	2
Performance analysis of English hospitals during the first and second waves of the coronavirus pandemic	2