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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hospital service focus vs. breadth: Impact on hospital outcomes and the moderating role of hospital size	38
Optimization of tray inventory levels in hospitals from an integral perspective	25
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	25
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	24
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	20
Public health interventions for developing resilience to contagious diseases: a system dynamics approach	19
Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers	18
Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation	16
A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America	15
Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients	15
How much is adequate staffing for a nursing home? Forecasting daily service need of its case mix	15
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	14
Surgery scheduling problem considering the affinity and preferences in the surgical team	13
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	13
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	12
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	12
Optimization of diagnostic kits usage based on symptomatic presentation: an application of military decision making in public health	12
A survey on optimization and machine learning-based fair decision making in healthcare	11
Did COVID-19 worsen the disparities among mental health patients at risk of exhibiting aggression in Ontario, Canada?	11
A change-point method for multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring using weighted multivariate functional principal component analysis	11
Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	10
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
Joint decisions for hospital admissions and horizontal medical resource transfer against capacity shortage in the early stage of pandemics	9

Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	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 systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning	8
Identifying the most influential employees in infectious disease spread using stochastic mixed integer linear programming optimization	8
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022	8
Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests	8
A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques	8
A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty	7
Optimizing operating room scheduling through multi-level learning and column generation: a novel hybrid approach	7
A tactical multi-week implicit tour scheduling model with applications in healthcare	7
A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework	7
A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan	7
The crucial role of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in improving health care management	7
Visualisation of Data Envelopment Analysis in primary health services	7
A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling	6
A novel two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for kidney allocation problem under medical and logistical uncertainty: a real case study	6
Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines	6
A reinforcement learning-based optimal control approach for managing an elective surgery backlog after pandemic disruption	6
Enhancing patient accessibility of primary care: the redesign of Italian territorial medicine	6
Optimal capacity planning for long-term care facilities considering patients’ gender, language, and age group	6
Machine learning for optimal test admission in the presence of resource constraints	6