Fig 1.
Conceptual model of a feed-forward and recurrent neural network.
Table 1.
Screening inclusion, exclusion criteria.
Fig 2.
*Articles excluded for the following reasons: Not ANN or suitable synonym (n = 93), use of ANN unrelated to healthcare organizational decision-making (n = 70), based on iterated exclusion criteria (n = 45), not based on empirical or theoretical research (n = 9), could not access full-text (n = 9).
Fig 3.
(A) Number of articles by publication year. (B) Number of articles by country.
Table 2.
Study areas identified in the review.
Fig 4.
Types of applications of artificial neural networks identified in the review.