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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Optimization-driven framework to understand health care network costs and resource allocation	42
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	28
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	28
Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation	27
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	26
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	18
How hospitals can improve their public quality metrics: a decision-theoretic model	15
A two-stage robust optimization approach for the master surgical schedule problem under uncertainty considering downstream resources	14
Optimizing diabetes screening frequencies for at-risk groups	14
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	10
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	10
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	10
A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	10
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	10
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	10
Health care management science for underserved populations	9
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	9
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	9
Leveraging electronic health record data to inform hospital resource management	8
Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	8
A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework	8
A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	8
Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans	8
Enhanced coverage by integrating site interdependencies in capacitated EMS location models	8
Identification of predictors and model for predicting prolonged length of stay in dengue patients	8

What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	8
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022	7
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	7
A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	7
A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan	7
A multi-stage stochastic programming approach to epidemic resource allocation with equity considerations	7
A tactical multi-week implicit tour scheduling model with applications in healthcare	7
A case for location based contact tracing	6
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	6
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	6
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	6
A two-phase approach for the Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem	6
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	5
Non-linear missing data imputation for healthcare data via index-aware autoencoders	5
The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: Evidence from an intervention in Boston	5
A novel two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for kidney allocation problem under medical and logistical uncertainty: a real case study	5
Optimization of the stroke hospital selection strategy and the distribution of endovascular thrombectomy resources	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
A two-stage partial fixing approach for solving the residency block scheduling problem	5
Patients, primary care, and policy: Agent-based simulation modeling for health care decision support	4
Strategic placement of volunteer responder system defibrillators	4
Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data	4
Monitoring policy in the context of preventive treatment of cardiovascular disease	4
On the timing and probability of Presurgical Teledermatology: how it becomes the dominant strategy	4
Correction to: Repeat SARS-CoV-2 testing models for residential college populations	4
A reinforcement learning approach for the online dynamic home health care scheduling problem	4
A queuing model for ventilator capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Examining chronic kidney disease screening frequency among diabetics: a POMDP approach	4
Point-of-use hospital inventory management with inaccurate usage capture	3
Bayesian prediction of emergency department wait time	3
Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	3
Unsupervised learning methods for efficient geographic clustering and identification of disease disparities with applications to county-level colorectal cancer incidence in California	3
Determining optimal COVID-19 testing center locations and capacities	3
Combining machine learning and optimization for the operational patient-bed assignment problem	3
The benefits (or detriments) of adapting to demand disruptions in a hospital pharmacy with supply chain disruptions	3
Stroke care networks and the impact on quality of care	3
Hospital volume allocation: integrating decision maker and patient perspectives	3
Health care management science - best paper of 2023	3
Prospective adverse event risk evaluation in clinical trials	3
Managing a multi-panel clinic with heterogeneous patients	3
Streamlining emergency department workflow: reducing length of stay with congestion-triggered standing orders	3
Managing low–acuity patients in an Emergency Department through simulation–based multiobjective optimization using a neural network metamodel	2
Managing surgical waiting lists through dynamic priority scoring	2
A two-stage stochastic optimization framework to allocate operating room capacity in publicly-funded hospitals under uncertainty	2
Introduction to the special issue: Management Science in the Fight Against Covid-19	2
Predicting rapid progression phases in glaucoma using a soft voting ensemble classifier exploiting Kalman filtering	2
Effectiveness of feedback control and the trade-off between death by COVID-19 and costs of countermeasures	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
Predicting no-show appointments in a pediatric hospital in Chile using machine learning	2
Correction to: Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 h of emergency department patients with unstructured text data	2
Performance measurement of nonhomogeneous Hong Kong hospitals using directional distance functions	2
Correction to: Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	2
A mixed-integer slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis for efficiency measuring of German university hospitals	2
Responding to the US opioid crisis: leveraging analytics to support decision making	2