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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 scenario modelling for the mitigation of capacity-dependent deaths in intensive care	50
Advancing evidence-based healthcare facility design: a systematic literature review	45
Balancing scarce hospital resources during the COVID-19 pandemic using discrete-event simulation	44
From predictions to prescriptions: A data-driven response to COVID-19	39
Aligning SARS-CoV-2 indicators via an epidemic model: application to hospital admissions and RNA detection in sewage sludge	36
Personalized treatment for coronary artery disease patients: a machine learning approach	32
Real-time forecasting of COVID-19 bed occupancy in wards and Intensive Care Units	26
Assessing the efficiency of Malaysia health system in COVID-19 prevention and treatment response	26
Transforming COVID-19 vaccines into vaccination	23
Brazilian hospitals’ performance: an assessment of the unified health system (SUS)	23
Selecting pharmacies for COVID-19 testing to ensure access	23
Repeat SARS-CoV-2 testing models for residential college populations	23
A multi-stage stochastic programming approach to epidemic resource allocation with equity considerations	23
A two-stage robust optimization approach for the master surgical schedule problem under uncertainty considering downstream resources	16
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	16
Scheduling patient appointment in an infusion center: a mixed integer robust optimization approach	15
Towards a more efficient healthcare system: Opportunities and challenges caused by hospital closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic	15
An integrated quality and resilience engineering framework in healthcare with Z-number data envelopment analysis	14
Investigating the link between medical urgency and hospital efficiency – Insights from the German hospital market	14
The impact of quality on hospital choice. Which information affects patients’ behavior for colorectal resection or knee replacement?	12
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	11
An artificial neural network based mathematical model for a stochastic health care facility location problem	11
Identification of predictors and model for predicting prolonged length of stay in dengue patients	10
Radiotherapy treatment scheduling considering time window preferences	10
Beyond COVID-19 deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	9

Using data envelopment analysis and the bootstrap method to evaluate organ transplantation efficiency in Brazil	9
Prediction of personal protective equipment use in hospitals during COVID-19	9
A stochastic risk-averse framework for blood donation appointment scheduling under uncertain donor arrivals	9
Home care vehicle routing problem with chargeable overtime and strict and soft preference matching	9
Managing capacity for virtual and office appointments in chronic care	9
Bibliometric analysis of cancer care operations management: current status, developments, and future directions	8
Stochastic programming for outpatient scheduling with flexible inpatient exam accommodation	8
The effect of correlation and false negatives in pool testing strategies for COVID-19	8
Personalized prescription of ACEI/ARBs for hypertensive COVID-19 patients	8
A robust optimization model for tactical capacity planning in an outpatient setting	8
Managing admission and discharge processes in intensive care units	8
Point-of-use hospital inventory management with inaccurate usage capture	7
Does hospital competition lead to medical equipment expansion? Evidence on the medical arms race	7
Agent-based evolving network modeling: a new simulation method for modeling low prevalence infectious diseases	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
Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans	6
Patients, primary care, and policy: Agent-based simulation modeling for health care decision support	6
A Markov chain model for analysis of physician workflow in primary care clinics	6
Optimal cholesterol treatment plans and genetic testing strategies for cardiovascular diseases	5
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	5
Modeling patients as decision making units: evaluating the efficiency of kidney transplantation through data envelopment analysis	5
A heuristic approach to the task planning problem in a home care business	5
Predicting no-show appointments in a pediatric hospital in Chile using machine learning	4
How efficient are surgical treatments in Japan? The case of a high-volume Japanese hospital	4
A scheduling-based methodology for improving patient perceptions of quality of care in intensive care units	4
Optimal patient protocols in regional acute stroke care	4
A two-phase approach for the Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem	4
Association between leniency of anesthesiologists when evaluating certified registered nurse anesthetists and when evaluating didactic lectures	4
Introduction to the special issue: Management Science in the Fight Against Covid-19	4
Monitoring of high-yield and periodical processes in health care	4
Leveraging electronic health record data to inform hospital resource management	4
A case for location based contact tracing	4
Tackling maternal mortality by improving technical efficiency in the production of primary health services: longitudinal evidence from the Mexican case	4
Are patients more adherent to newer drugs?	4
Predicting and improving patient-level antibiotic adherence	3
Covid-19 triage in the emergency department 2.0: how analytics and AI transform a human-made algorithm for the prediction of clinical pathways	3
Quantile regression forests for individualized surgery scheduling	3
Balancing control and autonomy in master surgery scheduling: Benefits of ICU quotas for recovery units	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
Optimal cost adjustment for a selfish routing healthcare network	3
Optimization-driven framework to understand health care network costs and resource allocation	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
Managing access to primary care clinics using scheduling templates	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
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	2
The Waiting Game – How Cooperation Between Public and Private Hospitals Can Help Reduce Waiting Lists	2

Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	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
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	2
Predicting rapid progression phases in glaucoma using a soft voting ensemble classifier exploiting Kalman filtering	2
A mixed-integer slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis for efficiency measuring of German university hospitals	2
On the use of partitioning for scheduling of surgeries in the inpatient surgical department	2
Developing an Institute for Health Care Delivery Science: successes, challenges, and solutions in the first five years	2
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the performance of organ transplant services using data envelopment analysis	2
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	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