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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Pharmaceutical supply chain and inventory management strategies: Optimization for a pharmaceutical company and a hospital	Operations Research for Health Care	2013	194
2	Pharmaceutical supply chain specifics and inventory solutions for a hospital case	Operations Research for Health Care	2012	152
3	Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in health care: A bibliometric analysis	Operations Research for Health Care	2013	135
4	OR problems related to Home Health Care: A review of relevant routing and scheduling problems	Operations Research for Health Care	2017	125
5	Application of queueing theory in health care: A literature review	Operations Research for Health Care	2013	120
6	Improving decision-making and management of hospital resources: An application of the PROMETHEE II method in an Emergency Department	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	112
7	A memetic algorithm for a home health care routing and scheduling problem	Operations Research for Health Care	2018	108
8	Minimizing the waiting time for emergency surgery	Operations Research for Health Care	2012	94
9	Robust nurse-to-patient assignment in home care services to minimize overtimes under continuity of care	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	89
10	The top ten global health supply chain issues: Perspectives from the field	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	88
11	Modeling the impact of changing patient flow processes in an emergency department: Insights from a computer simulation study	Operations Research for Health Care	2013	87
12	An efficient heuristic for real-time ambulance redeployment	Operations Research for Health Care	2015	79
13	Patient-based nurse rostering in home care	Operations Research for Health Care	2016	73
14	Trade-offs in operating room planning for electives and emergencies: A review	Operations Research for Health Care	2015	72
15	Scheduling elective surgeries in a Portuguese hospital using a genetic heuristic	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	64
16	A hybrid optimization algorithm for surgeries scheduling	Operations Research for Health Care	2016	64
17	Blood inventory management in hospitals: Considering supply and demand uncertainty and blood transshipment possibility	Operations Research for Health Care	2017	61
18	A network flow model for inventory management and distribution of influenza vaccines through a healthcare supply chain	Operations Research for Health Care	2015	57
19	Ambulance location under stochastic demand: A sampling approach	Operations Research for Health Care	2016	53
20	Long term evaluation of operating theater planning policies	Operations Research for Health Care	2012	52
21	How can decision makers be supported in the improvement of an emergency department? A simulation, optimization and data mining approach	Operations Research for Health Care	2017	52
22	Forecasting arrivals and occupancy levels in an emergency department	Operations Research for Health Care	2019	49
23	Optimal inventory management strategies for pharmaceutical company and hospital supply chain in a fuzzy–stochastic environment	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	48
24	A data-driven model of an emergency department	Operations Research for Health Care	2017	47
25	A structured literature review of simulation modelling applied to Emergency Departments: Current patterns and emerging trends	Operations Research for Health Care	2018	47
26	Assessment of forecasting models for patients arrival at Emergency Department	Operations Research for Health Care	2018	45
27	Improving sustainability in a two-level pharmaceutical supply chain through Vendor-Managed Inventory system	Operations Research for Health Care	2019	45
28	Scheduling patient appointments via multilevel template: A case study in chemotherapy	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	44
29	Scheduling elective surgeries with sequence-dependent setup times to multiple operating rooms using constraint programming	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	44
30	Reducing uncertainty in demand for blood	Operations Research for Health Care	2016	43
31	Use of a simulation-based decision support tool to improve emergency department throughput	Operations Research for Health Care	2016	42
32	A flexible discrete optimization approach to the physician scheduling problem	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	41
33	Scheduling of nurses: A case study of a Kuwaiti health care unit	Operations Research for Health Care	2013	39
34	Planning and scheduling operating rooms for elective and emergency surgeries with uncertain duration	Operations Research for Health Care	2018	39
35	Optimal control of intervention strategies and cost effectiveness analysis for a Zika virus model	Operations Research for Health Care	2018	37
36	Is the hospital lean? A mathematical model for assessing the implementation of lean thinking in healthcare institutions	Operations Research for Health Care	2018	36
37	An overbooking scheduling model for outpatient appointments in a multi-provider clinic	Operations Research for Health Care	2015	33
38	A comprehensive location-allocation method for specialized healthcare services	Operations Research for Health Care	2012	32
39	Location of low-cost blood collection and distribution centres in Thailand	Operations Research for Health Care	2016	32
40	Mitigating overcrowding in emergency departments using Six Sigma and simulation: A case study in Egypt	Operations Research for Health Care	2017	32
41	Handling uncertainty in health care management using the cardinality-constrained approach: Advantages and remarks	Operations Research for Health Care	2015	31
42	Trade-off between stakeholders’ goals in the home care nurse-to-patient assignment problem	Operations Research for Health Care	2018	31
43	A simulation model for perioperative process improvement	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	30
44	A multi-class multi-server accumulating priority queue with application to health care	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	30
45	Bicriteria elective surgery scheduling using an evolutionary algorithm	Operations Research for Health Care	2015	30
46	Assessing factors affecting flood-induced public health risks in Kassala State of Sudan	Operations Research for Health Care	2014	29
47	Coverage, survivability or response time: A comparative study of performance statistics used in ambulance location models via simulation–optimization	Operations Research for Health Care	2016	29
48	Managing emergency department crowding through improved triaging and resource allocation	Operations Research for Health Care	2016	29
49	A stochastic model to minimize patient waiting time in an emergency department	Operations Research for Health Care	2018	29
50	Involving patients and the public in healthcare operational research—The challenges and opportunities	Operations Research for Health Care	2013	28

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