Health Care Management Science

1998 - 2025

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Volume 28, issue 4, 2025

December 2025 issue and journal transitions pp. 571-571

Gregory S. Zaric

Foreword to the special issue: management science for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response pp. 572-574

Hrayer Aprahamian, Vedat Verter and Manaf Zargoush

Causal networks guiding large language models: application to COVID-19 pp. 575-582

Farrokh Alemi, Kevin James Lybarger, Jee Vang, Yili Lin, Hadeel R. A. Elyazori and Vladimir Franzuela Cardenas

Expanding modeling boundaries to design more resilient vaccine supply networks pp. 583-590

Donovan Guttieres, Carla Van Riet, Nico Vandaele and Catherine Decouttere

County-level mobility and sociopolitical context in the spread of COVID-19 during spring 2020 pp. 591-607

Chris Parker and Jorge Mejia

A descriptive investigation of the impact of statewide distribution policies and consumer vulnerabilities on COVID-19 vaccination in the united States pp. 608-621

Kathleen Iacocca, Beth Vallen, Alicia Strandberg and Laura Meinzen-Dick

Public health interventions for developing resilience to contagious diseases: a system dynamics approach pp. 622-643

Hajar Sadegh Zadeh, Amir Hossein Ansaripoor, Md Hossan Maruf Chowdhury and Ali Haghparast

Joint decisions for hospital admissions and horizontal medical resource transfer against capacity shortage in the early stage of pandemics pp. 644-671

Huiping Sun and Jianghua Zhang

A stochastic programming model for trauma hospital network expansion considering rural communities and COVID-19 pp. 672-690

Eduardo Pérez, Alakshendra Joshi, Sabhasachi Saha and Francis A. Méndez-Mediavilla

Optimizing operating room scheduling through multi-level learning and column generation: a novel hybrid approach pp. 691-714

Rong Zhao, Yaqin Quan and Guangrui Fan

Optimal capacity planning for long-term care facilities considering patients’ gender, language, and age group pp. 715-737

Ghazal Khalili, Mohsen Zargoush and Kai Huang

Can past variants of SARS-CoV-2 predict the impact of future variants? Machine learning for early warning of US counties at risk pp. 738-758

Kevin B. Smith, Siqian Shen and Brian T. Denton

Multi-objective dynamic prioritized routing and scheduling for home healthcare services with cooperating service providers pp. 759-786

Mert Parçaoğlu, F. Sibel Salman and Ozgur M. Araz

Positive and unlabeled learning from hospital administrative data: a novel approach to identify sepsis cases pp. 787-805

Justus Vogel and Johannes Cordier

Diagnosis decoded: a taxonomy and natural language processing analysis of the diagnosis section in German hospital discharge summaries pp. 806-823

Julian Frings, Paul Rust, Felix Jede, Sven Meister, Christian Prinz and Leonard Fehring

Enhancing clinical and non-clinical risk management: A case study using ELECTRE Tri-nC pp. 824-841

Joana Lemos Alves and Miguel Alves Pereira

Surgery scheduling problem considering the affinity and preferences in the surgical team pp. 842-865

Francisco Ríos-Fierro, Guillermo Latorre-Núñez and Carlos Contreras-Bolton

A decision support tool for the location, districting and dimensioning of Community Health Houses pp. 866-889

Martina Doneda, Ettore Lanzarone, Carlotta Franchi, Sara Mandelli, Angelo Barbato, Alessandro Nobili and Giuliana Carello

Equity-promoting integer programming approaches for medical resident rotation scheduling pp. 890-929

Shutian Li, Karmel S. Shehadeh, Frank E. Curtis and Beth R. Hochman

Synergizing artificial intelligence and operations research for advancements in biomanufacturing pp. 930-935

Tugce Martagan and Tinglong Dai

Volume 28, issue 3, 2025

Fair allocation strategies for opioid settlements pp. 335-356

Qiushi Chen, Robert Newton and Paul Griffin

A change-point method for multi-lead electrocardiogram monitoring using weighted multivariate functional principal component analysis pp. 357-380

Hesam Hafezalseheh, Mohammad Fathian, Rassoul Noorossana, Yaser Zerehsaz and Kamran Heidari

Optimal quality oversight in kidney transplantation and its impact on transplant centers’ waitlist management pp. 381-410

Zahra Gharibi, Hung T. Do, Michael Hahsler and Mehmet U. S. Ayvaci

A two-phase method for layout optimization: The case of a referral cancer center in Latin America pp. 411-433

Anderson Coutinho, Rafael Morais, Anand Subramanian, Matheus Silva, Oscar Porto and Luciano Costa

Innovations in early detection of chronic non-communicable diseases among adolescents through an easy-to-Use AutoML paradigm pp. 434-460

Nevena Rankovic, Dragica Rankovic and Igor Lukic

Measuring the effect of deprivation on primary health care performance using data envelopment analysis and Malmquist Indices pp. 461-477

Holly Bea Merelie, Carla Alexandra Filipe Amado and Sérgio Pereira Santos

A decomposition-based approach for multi-level appointment planning and scheduling pp. 478-504

Tine Meersman and Broos Maenhout

Data in ambulatory care logistics: What modelers need and what practice can offer pp. 505-526

Anne Zander and Melanie Reuter-Oppermann

Enhancing patient accessibility of primary care: the redesign of Italian territorial medicine pp. 527-547

Antonio Diglio, Chiara Morlotti, Giuseppe Bruno, Mattia Cattaneo, Stefano Paleari and Carmela Piccolo

Looking for the crystal ball in unscheduled care: a systematic literature review of the forecasting process pp. 548-564

Mingzhe Shi, Bahman Rostami-Tabar and Daniel Gartner

The crucial role of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in improving health care management pp. 565-570

Arne Johannssen and Nataliya Chukhrova

Volume 28, issue 2, 2025

Streamlining emergency department workflow: reducing length of stay with congestion-triggered standing orders pp. 143-159

Saied Samiedaluie, Vera Tilson and Armann Ingolfsson

Impact of subsidy policies on the financial status of trauma centers pp. 160-177

Lin Lin and Pratik J. Parikh

A comparative inpatient care efficiency analysis of safety-net vs. non-safety-net hospitals: an analysis using Massachusetts inpatient claims data from 2015 to 2019 pp. 178-190

Jiaye Shen, Dominic Hodgkin and Jennifer Perloff

Blood platelet inventory management: Incorporating data-driven demand forecasts pp. 191-206

Maryam Motamedi, Jessica Dawson, Na Li and Douglas Down

Visualisation of Data Envelopment Analysis in primary health services pp. 207-233

Ane Elixabete Ripoll-Zarraga, José Luis Franco Miguel and Carmen Fullana Belda

Location planning, resource reallocation and patient assignment during a pandemic considering the needs of ordinary patients pp. 234-258

Yu Lu, Shaochong Lin, Zuo-Jun Max Shen and Junlong Zhang

A compartmental modelling methodology to support strategic decision making for managing the elective hospital waiting list; application in England’s NHS pp. 259-273

Richard M. Wood and David J. Worthington

Ambulance location and relocation under budget constraints: investigating coverage-maximization models and ambulance sharing to improve emergency medical services performance pp. 274-297

Youness Frichi, Lina Aboueljinane and Fouad Jawab

Reinforcement learning for healthcare operations management: methodological framework, recent developments, and future research directions pp. 298-333

Qihao Wu, Jiangxue Han, Yimo Yan, Yong-Hong Kuo and Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Volume 28, issue 1, 2025

Assessing the performance of Portuguese public hospitals before and during COVID-19 outbreak, with optimistic and pessimistic benchmarking approaches pp. 1-27

Guilherme Mendes Vara, Marta Castilho Gomes and Diogo Cunha Ferreira

Mechanistic modeling of social conditions in disease-prediction simulations via copulas and probabilistic graphical models: HIV case study pp. 28-49

Amir Khosheghbal, Peter J. Haas and Chaitra Gopalappa

Road coverage as demand metric for ambulance allocation pp. 50-63

Martin Buuren

Inter-organizational pooling of NICU nurses in the Dutch neonatal network: a simulation-optimization study pp. 64-83

Gréanne Leeftink, Kimberley Morris, Tim Antonius, Willem de Vries and Erwin Hans

Optimizing vaccination campaign strategies considering societal characteristics pp. 84-98

Serin Lee, Zelda B. Zabinsky and Shan Liu

A chance-constrained network DEA approach for evaluating medical service and quality efficiency: a case study of Taiwan pp. 99-118

Shiu-Wan Hung, Kai-Chu Yang, Wen-Min Lu and Minh-Hieu Le

DEA-based centralized resource allocation with a balance between efficiency and equity: evidence from healthcare services across 31 provinces in China pp. 119-141

Tao Du, Jinyu Li and Yan Qiao

Volume 27, issue 4, 2024

A study of “left against medical advice” emergency department patients: an optimized explainable artificial intelligence framework pp. 485-502

Abdulaziz Ahmed, Khalid Y. Aram, Salih Tutun and Dursun Delen

Strategic placement of volunteer responder system defibrillators pp. 503-524

Robin Buter, Arthur Nazarian, Hendrik Koffijberg, Erwin W. Hans, Remy Stieglis, Rudolph W. Koster and Derya Demirtas

The benefits (or detriments) of adapting to demand disruptions in a hospital pharmacy with supply chain disruptions pp. 525-554

Lauren L Czerniak, Mariel S Lavieri, Mark S Daskin, Eunshin Byon, Karl Renius, Burgunda V Sweet, Jennifer Leja and Matthew A Tupps

A novel two-stage network data envelopment analysis model for kidney allocation problem under medical and logistical uncertainty: a real case study pp. 555-579

Farhad Hamidzadeh, Mir Saman Pishvaee and Naeme Zarrinpoor

Optimization of testing protocols to screen for COVID-19: a multi-objective model pp. 580-603

Hadi Moheb-Alizadeh, Donald P. Warsing, Richard E. Kouri, Sajjad Taghiyeh and Robert B. Handfield

Forecasting to support EMS tactical planning: what is important and what is not pp. 604-630

Mostafa Rezaei and Armann Ingolfsson

Evaluating machine learning model bias and racial disparities in non-small cell lung cancer using SEER registry data pp. 631-649

Cameron Trentz, Jacklyn Engelbart, Jason Semprini, Amanda Kahl, Eric Anyimadu, John Buatti, Thomas Casavant, Mary Charlton and Guadalupe Canahuate

A reinforcement learning approach for the online dynamic home health care scheduling problem pp. 650-664

Quy Ta-Dinh, Tu-San Pham, Minh Hoàng Hà and Louis-Martin Rousseau

Health care management science for underserved populations pp. 665-667

Itamar Megiddo, Sarang Deo, Alec Morton and Sheetal Silal

Volume 27, issue 3, 2024

A novel approach to forecast surgery durations using machine learning techniques pp. 313-327

Marco Caserta and Antonio Garcia Romero

Leveraging the potential of the German operating room benchmarking initiative for planning: A ready-to-use surgical process data set pp. 328-351

Grigory Korzhenevich and Anne Zander

Multi-resource allocation and care sequence assignment in patient management: a stochastic programming approach pp. 352-369

Xinyu Yao, Karmel S. Shehadeh and Rema Padman

Dissatisfaction-considered waiting time prediction for outpatients with interpretable machine learning pp. 370-390

Jongkyung Shin, Donggi Augustine Lee, Juram Kim, Chiehyeon Lim and Byung-Kwan Choi

Examining chronic kidney disease screening frequency among diabetics: a POMDP approach pp. 391-414

Chou-Chun Wu, Yiwen Cao, Sze-chuan Suen and Eugene Lin

Managing low–acuity patients in an Emergency Department through simulation–based multiobjective optimization using a neural network metamodel pp. 415-435

Marco Boresta, Tommaso Giovannelli and Massimo Roma

Enhancing affordability and profit in a non-cooperative, coordinated, hypothetical pediatric vaccine market via sequential optimization pp. 436-457

Bruno Alves-Maciel and Ruben A. Proano

A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning pp. 458-478

Mahsa Pahlevani, Majid Taghavi and Peter Vanberkel

Editorial: management science for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response pp. 479-482

Hrayer Aprahamian, Vedat Verter and Manaf Zargoush

Health care management science - best paper of 2023 pp. 483-483

Greg Zaric

Volume 27, issue 2, 2024

Meritorious service awards − 2023 pp. 135-135

Greg Zaric

A machine learning framework for interpretable predictions in patient pathways: The case of predicting ICU admission for patients with symptoms of sepsis pp. 136-167

Sandra Zilker, Sven Weinzierl, Mathias Kraus, Patrick Zschech and Martin Matzner

Integrated procurement and reprocessing planning for reusable medical devices with a limited shelf life pp. 168-187

Steffen Rickers and Florian Sahling

Visibility-based layout of a hospital unit – An optimization approach pp. 188-207

Uttam Karki and Pratik J. Parikh

Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests pp. 208-222

Vinicius M. Ton, Nathália C. O. da Silva, Angel Ruiz, José E. Pécora, Cassius T. Scarpin and Valérie Bélenger

An optimization framework for large-scale screening under limited testing capacity with application to COVID-19 pp. 223-238

Jiayi Lin, Hrayer Aprahamian and George Golovko

The potential of patient-based nurse staffing – a queuing theory application in the neonatal intensive care setting pp. 239-253

Sandra Sülz, Andreas Fügener, Michael Becker-Peth and Bernhard Roth

Optimization of the stroke hospital selection strategy and the distribution of endovascular thrombectomy resources pp. 254-267

Chun-Han Wang, Yu-Ching Lee and Ming-Ju Hsieh

Do adjustment costs constrain public healthcare providers’ technical efficiency? Evidence from the New Zealand Public Healthcare System pp. 268-283

Antony Andrews and Grigorios Emvalomatis

Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984–2022 pp. 284-312

Dinesh R. Pai, Fatma Pakdil and Nasibeh Azadeh-Fard

Volume 27, issue 1, 2024

Accessible location of mobile labs for COVID-19 testing pp. 1-19

Dianne Villicaña-Cervantes and Omar J. Ibarra-Rojas

Heterogeneous donor circles for fair liver transplant allocation pp. 20-45

Shubham Akshat, Sommer E. Gentry and S. Raghavan

Scheduling mobile dental clinics: A heuristic approach considering fairness among school districts pp. 46-71

Ignacio A. Sepúlveda, Maichel M. Aguayo, Rodrigo De la Fuente, Guillermo Latorre-Núñez, Carlos Obreque and Camila Vásquez Orrego

The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: Evidence from an intervention in Boston pp. 72-87

Mark Brennan, Sophia Dyer, Jonas Jonasson, James Salvia, Laura Segal, Erin Serino and Justin Steil

Efficiency effects of public hospital closures in the context of public hospital reform: a multistep efficiency analysis pp. 88-113

Songul Cinaroglu

Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 hours of emergency department patients with unstructured text data pp. 114-129

Hyeram Seo, Imjin Ahn, Hansle Gwon, Hee Jun Kang, Yunha Kim, Ha Na Cho, Heejung Choi, Minkyoung Kim, Jiye Han, Gaeun Kee, Seohyun Park, Dong-Woo Seo, Tae Joon Jun and Young-Hak Kim

Correction to: Prediction of hospitalization and waiting time within 24 h of emergency department patients with unstructured text data pp. 130-130

Hyeram Seo, Imjin Ahn, Hansle Gwon, Hee Jun Kang, Yunha Kim, Ha Na Cho, Heejung Choi, Minkyoung Kim, Jiye Han, Gaeun Kee, Seohyun Park, Dong-Woo Seo, Tae Joon Jun and Young-Hak Kim