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 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
Assessing the efficiency of Malaysia health system in COVID-19 prevention and treatment response	26
Real-time forecasting of COVID-19 bed occupancy in wards and Intensive Care Units	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
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
Beyond COVID-19 deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	9
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
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
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
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
Agent-based evolving network modeling: a new simulation method for modeling low prevalence infectious diseases	6