“…Out of the 28 papers, 16 focused on predicting future demands and how the corresponding departments would be required to adapt to this change [4,9,12,15,18,20,33,34,37,43,45,49,57,62,83,84]. A further nine papers aimed to predict the length of stay of patients in hospitals or within community care [1,32,40,53,54,55,66,69,81]. Surprisingly, of these nine, one author was co-author on five of these papers, suggesting that the research within this field is limited to a few research teams [32,53,54,55,66].…”