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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hospital service focus vs. breadth: Impact on hospital outcomes and the moderating role of hospital size	38
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	25
Optimization of tray inventory levels in hospitals from an integral perspective	25
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	24
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	20
Public health interventions for developing resilience to contagious diseases: a system dynamics approach	19
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	18
Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation	16
How much is adequate staffing for a nursing home? Forecasting daily service need of its case mix	15
A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America	15
Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients	15
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	14
Surgery scheduling problem considering the affinity and preferences in the surgical team	13
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	13
Optimization of diagnostic kits usage based on symptomatic presentation: an application of military decision making in public health	12
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	12
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	12
A change-point method for multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring using weighted multivariate functional principal component analysis	11
A survey on optimization and machine learning-based fair decision making in healthcare	11
Did COVID-19 worsen the disparities among mental health patients at risk of exhibiting aggression in Ontario, Canada?	11
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	10
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	10
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	10
Health care management science for underserved populations	10
Joint decisions for hospital admissions and horizontal medical resource transfer against capacity shortage in the early stage of pandemics	9

Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	9
Optimal quality oversight in kidney transplantation and its impact on transplant centers’ waitlist management	9
What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	9
A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	8
A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	8
Identifying the most influential employees in infectious disease spread using stochastic mixed integer linear programming optimization	8
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022	8
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	8
The crucial role of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in improving health care management	7
Visualisation of Data Envelopment Analysis in primary health services	7
A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	7
Optimizing operating room scheduling through multi-level learning and column generation: a novel hybrid approach	7
A tactical multi-week implicit tour scheduling model with applications in healthcare	7
A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework	7
A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan	7
Enhancing patient accessibility of primary care: the redesign of Italian territorial medicine	6
Optimal capacity planning for long-term care facilities considering patients’ gender, language, and age group	6
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	6
A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling	6
A novel two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for kidney allocation problem under medical and logistical uncertainty: a real case study	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
Strategic analysis of heterogeneous fleet composition for aerial interhospital transport in underserved areas of Canada	5
On integrating patient appointment grids and technologist schedules in a radiology center	5
Online scheduling using a fixed template: the case of outpatient chemotherapy drug administration	5
Synergizing artificial intelligence and operations research for advancements in biomanufacturing	5
Optimization of the stroke hospital selection strategy and the distribution of endovascular thrombectomy resources	5
Non-linear missing data imputation for healthcare data via index-aware autoencoders	5
Multi-objective dynamic prioritized routing and scheduling for home healthcare services with cooperating service providers	5
A two-stage partial fixing approach for solving the residency block scheduling problem	4
Examining chronic kidney disease screening frequency among diabetics: a POMDP approach	4
Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data	4
A reinforcement learning approach for the online dynamic home health care scheduling problem	4
The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: Evidence from an intervention in Boston	4
Diagnosis decoded: a taxonomy and natural language processing analysis of the diagnosis section in German hospital discharge summaries	3
December 2025 issue and journal transitions	3
Strategic placement of volunteer responder system defibrillators	3
An upper bound to the benefits of implementing positive assortative matching in pooled testing	3
Combining machine learning and optimization for the operational patient-bed assignment problem	3
A queuing model for ventilator capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The predictive factors of US hospital bankruptcy - a multi-model comparison	3
Monitoring policy in the context of preventive treatment of cardiovascular disease	3
Data in ambulatory care logistics: What modelers need and what practice can offer	2
Determining optimal COVID-19 testing center locations and capacities	2
Healthcare applications of 0-1 neural networks in prescriptive problems with observational data	2
Correction to: Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 h of emergency department patients with unstructured text data	2
Looking for the crystal ball in unscheduled care: a systematic literature review of the forecasting process	2
Managing surgical waiting lists through dynamic priority scoring	2
Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	2
Streamlining emergency department workflow: reducing length of stay with congestion-triggered standing orders	2

Enhancing clinical and non-clinical risk management: A case study using ELECTRE Tri-nC	2
Unsupervised learning methods for efficient geographic clustering and identification of disease disparities with applications to county-level colorectal cancer incidence in California	2
Performance measurement of nonhomogeneous Hong Kong hospitals using directional distance functions	2
Managing a multi-panel clinic with heterogeneous patients	2
Innovations in early detection of chronic non-communicable diseases among adolescents through an easy-to-Use AutoML paradigm	2
A stochastic programming model for trauma hospital network expansion considering rural communities and COVID-19	2
Health care management science - best paper of 2023	2
The benefits (or detriments) of adapting to demand disruptions in a hospital pharmacy with supply chain disruptions	2
Intraday dynamic rescheduling under patient no-shows	2
Fair allocation strategies for opioid settlements	2
Effectiveness of feedback control and the trade-off between death by COVID-19 and costs of countermeasures	2
Generating simple classification rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations	2