Health Care Management Science

1998 - 2025

Current editor(s): Yasar Ozcan

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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