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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	35
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	29
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	21
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	20
Public health interventions for developing resilience to contagious diseases: a system dynamics approach	15
Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation	15
A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America	14
Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients	14
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	14
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	13
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
A change-point method for multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring using weighted multivariate functional principal component analysis	11
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	11
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	11
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	11
Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	10
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	10
Health care management science for underserved populations	10
A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	9
Joint decisions for hospital admissions and horizontal medical resource transfer against capacity shortage in the early stage of pandemics	9
A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework	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 multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	8
A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	8
The crucial role of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in improving health care management	8
Optimizing operating room scheduling through multi-level learning and column generation: a novel hybrid approach	8
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022	8
Visualisation of Data Envelopment Analysis in primary health services	7
Enhancing patient accessibility of primary care: the redesign of Italian territorial medicine	7
A tactical multi-week implicit tour scheduling model with applications in healthcare	7
A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling	6
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	6
On integrating patient appointment grids and technologist schedules in a radiology center	6
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	6
Optimal capacity planning for long-term care facilities considering patients’ gender, language, and age group	6
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	6
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	6
A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan	6
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	6
A novel two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for kidney allocation problem under medical and logistical uncertainty: a real case study	6