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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	28
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
Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients	19
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	19
Optimizing diabetes screening frequencies for at-risk groups	14
A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America	14
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	14
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	11
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	11
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	11
Patient-to-nurse ratios: Balancing quality, nurse turnover, and cost	10
Health care management science for underserved populations	10
Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks	10
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	10
A two-stage robust optimization approach for the master surgical schedule problem under uncertainty considering downstream resources	10
Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	9
What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	9
Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans	9
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	8
Identification of predictors and model for predicting prolonged length of stay in dengue patients	8
A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	8
A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	8
A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework	8

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
Visualisation of Data Envelopment Analysis in primary health services	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
Enhanced coverage by integrating site interdependencies in capacitated EMS location models	7
A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling	6
Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework	6
Non-linear missing data imputation for healthcare data via index-aware autoencoders	6
A case for location based contact tracing	6
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	6
Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system	6
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	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	6
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
A reinforcement learning approach for the online dynamic home health care scheduling problem	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
A novel two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for kidney allocation problem under medical and logistical uncertainty: a real case study	5
Examining chronic kidney disease screening frequency among diabetics: a POMDP approach	4
Combining machine learning and optimization for the operational patient-bed assignment problem	4
Monitoring policy in the context of preventive treatment of cardiovascular disease	4
Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data	4
Strategic placement of volunteer responder system defibrillators	4
Point-of-use hospital inventory management with inaccurate usage capture	4
The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: Evidence from an intervention in Boston	4
A queuing model for ventilator capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Health care management science - best paper of 2023	4
On the timing and probability of Presurgical Teledermatology: how it becomes the dominant strategy	4
Determining optimal COVID-19 testing center locations and capacities	3
Streamlining emergency department workflow: reducing length of stay with congestion-triggered standing orders	3
Unsupervised learning methods for efficient geographic clustering and identification of disease disparities with applications to county-level colorectal cancer incidence in California	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
Select, route and schedule: optimizing community paramedicine service delivery with mandatory visits and patient prioritization	3
Bayesian prediction of emergency department wait time	3
Prospective adverse event risk evaluation in clinical trials	3
Managing a multi-panel clinic with heterogeneous patients	3
Intraday dynamic rescheduling under patient no-shows	2
Managing low–acuity patients in an Emergency Department through simulation–based multiobjective optimization using a neural network metamodel	2
Correction to: Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 h of emergency department patients with unstructured text data	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
Managing surgical waiting lists through dynamic priority scoring	2
Effectiveness of feedback control and the trade-off between death by COVID-19 and costs of countermeasures	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

A compartmental modelling methodology to support strategic decision making for managing the elective hospital waiting list; application in England’s NHS	2
The effect of correlation and false negatives in pool testing strategies for COVID-19	2
Generating simple classification rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations	2
Performance measurement of nonhomogeneous Hong Kong hospitals using directional distance functions	2
Hospital volume allocation: integrating decision maker and patient perspectives	2
Looking for the crystal ball in unscheduled care: a systematic literature review of the forecasting process	2
Evaluating machine learning model bias and racial disparities in non-small cell lung cancer using SEER registry data	2
The Waiting Game – How Cooperation Between Public and Private Hospitals Can Help Reduce Waiting Lists	2