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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	39
Optimization of tray inventory levels in hospitals from an integral perspective	33
Hospital service focus vs. breadth: Impact on hospital outcomes and the moderating role of hospital size	33
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	29
A novel multi-criteria doctor ranking method considering patient risk attitudes and compensatory relationships	28
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	23
Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation	19
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	19
Public health interventions for developing resilience to contagious diseases: a system dynamics approach	19
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	18
A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America	18
Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients	17
Optimizing vaccine site locations while considering travel inconvenience and public health outcomes	16
How much is adequate staffing for a nursing home? Forecasting daily service need of its case mix	15
Did COVID-19 worsen the disparities among mental health patients at risk of exhibiting aggression in Ontario, Canada?	15
A survey on optimization and machine learning-based fair decision making in healthcare	14
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	13
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	12
Surgery scheduling problem considering the affinity and preferences in the surgical team	12
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	12
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	11
A change-point method for multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring using weighted multivariate functional principal component analysis	11
Optimization of diagnostic kits usage based on symptomatic presentation: an application of military decision making in public health	11
Health care management science for underserved populations	10
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	10

Identifying the most influential employees in infectious disease spread using stochastic mixed integer linear programming optimization	9
Optimal quality oversight in kidney transplantation and its impact on transplant centers’ waitlist management	8
A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	8
Joint decisions for hospital admissions and horizontal medical resource transfer against capacity shortage in the early stage of pandemics	8
A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	8
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	8
Ahead of the ambulance: Optimizing volunteer training	7
Strategic management of vaccine distribution during pandemics under uncertainty	7
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022	7
A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework	7
Visualisation of Data Envelopment Analysis in primary health services	7
The crucial role of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in improving health care management	7
Optimizing operating room scheduling through multi-level learning and column generation: a novel hybrid approach	7
A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling	6
A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan	6
Optimal capacity planning for long-term care facilities considering patients’ gender, language, and age group	6
Enhancing patient accessibility of primary care: the redesign of Italian territorial medicine	6
A novel two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for kidney allocation problem under medical and logistical uncertainty: a real case study	5
Synergizing artificial intelligence and operations research for advancements in biomanufacturing	5
An online algorithm for integrated scheduling of pre-treatment and treatment appointments in radiotherapy using deep reinforcement learning	5
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	5
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	5
Strategic analysis of heterogeneous fleet composition for aerial interhospital transport in underserved areas of Canada	5
Towards optimal valve prescription for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) surgery: a machine learning approach	4
Data-driven smart freight fleet management amid epidemic disruptions: A framework and case study	4
The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: Evidence from an intervention in Boston	4
Multi-objective dynamic prioritized routing and scheduling for home healthcare services with cooperating service providers	4
A two-stage partial fixing approach for solving the residency block scheduling problem	4
On integrating patient appointment grids and technologist schedules in a radiology center	4
Online scheduling using a fixed template: the case of outpatient chemotherapy drug administration	4
Optimization of the stroke hospital selection strategy and the distribution of endovascular thrombectomy resources	4
An upper bound to the benefits of implementing positive assortative matching in pooled testing	3
Strategic placement of volunteer responder system defibrillators	3
A queuing model for ventilator capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
A reinforcement learning approach for the online dynamic home health care scheduling problem	3
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
Examining chronic kidney disease screening frequency among diabetics: a POMDP approach	3
Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data	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
Performance measurement of nonhomogeneous Hong Kong hospitals using directional distance functions	2
Generating simple classification rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations	2
Managing a multi-panel clinic with heterogeneous patients	2
Combining machine learning and optimization for the operational patient-bed assignment problem	2
Healthcare applications of 0-1 neural networks in prescriptive problems with observational data	2
The benefits (or detriments) of adapting to demand disruptions in a hospital pharmacy with supply chain disruptions	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
Looking for the crystal ball in unscheduled care: a systematic literature review of the forecasting process	2

Health care management science - best paper of 2023	2
Determining optimal COVID-19 testing center locations and capacities	2
Data in ambulatory care logistics: What modelers need and what practice can offer	2
Improving hard-to-place kidney allocation: A machine learning approach to center ranking	2
Intraday dynamic rescheduling under patient no-shows	2
Correction to: Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 h of emergency department patients with unstructured text data	2
A stochastic programming model for trauma hospital network expansion considering rural communities and COVID-19	2
Enhancing clinical and non-clinical risk management: A case study using ELECTRE Tri-nC	2
Streamlining emergency department workflow: reducing length of stay with congestion-triggered standing orders	2
Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	2