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

Article	Citations
DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China	28
Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts	28
Classification of patients with chronic disease by activation level using machine learning methods	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
Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions	14
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
Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows	11
Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors	11
A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps	11
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
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
Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans	9
Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation	9
What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study	9
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
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

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 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	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
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