OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health Care Management Science is 6. 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
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	10
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	10
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
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	9
Health care management science for underserved populations	9
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	9
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
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
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
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
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	6
A two-phase approach for the Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem	6
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