Home health care routing and scheduling: A review

C Fikar, P Hirsch - Computers & Operations Research, 2017 - Elsevier
In home health care (HHC) operations, nurses are scheduled and routed to perform various
services at clients' homes. As this often requires a combination of vehicle routing and …

Healthcare scheduling in optimization context: a review

ZA Abdalkareem, A Amir, MA Al-Betar, P Ekhan… - Health and …, 2021 - Springer
This paper offers a summary of the latest studies on healthcare scheduling problems
including patients' admission scheduling problem, nurse scheduling problem, operation …

OR problems related to Home Health Care: A review of relevant routing and scheduling problems

M Cissé, S Yalçındağ, Y Kergosien, E Şahin… - Operations research for …, 2017 - Elsevier
The home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP) consists of designing a
set of routes used by care workers to provide care to patients who live in the same …

Routing and scheduling in home health care: A literature survey and bibliometric analysis

M Di Mascolo, C Martinez, ML Espinouse - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Home Health Care (HHC) agencies aim at providing care and/or services to
patients, at their homes, ensuring a quality of service at least equivalent to that given in a …

A survey on matheuristics for routing problems

C Archetti, MG Speranza - EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we survey the literature on matheuristics proposed to solve vehicle routing
problems. A matheuristic makes use of mathematical programming models in a heuristic …

A memetic algorithm for a home health care routing and scheduling problem

J Decerle, O Grunder, AH El Hassani… - Operations research for …, 2018 - Elsevier
This work addresses a home health care routing and scheduling problem with time window
and synchronization constraints. Each patient is associated with a period of availability …

[HTML][HTML] A state-of-the-art review of operation research models and applications in home healthcare

F Goodarzian, HS Garjan, P Ghasemi - Healthcare Analytics, 2023 - Elsevier
Healthcare workers and nurses in Home HealthCare (HHC) are routed and scheduled to
perform various services at patients' homes. These services often involve a combination of …

A sustainable and efficient home health care network design model under uncertainty

M Shiri, F Ahmadizar, D Thiruvady… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
To cater to the increasing demands, particularly during diseases such as Covid-19, the
design and planning of home health care systems is of significant importance. The current …

A hybrid memetic-ant colony optimization algorithm for the home health care problem with time window, synchronization and working time balancing

J Decerle, O Grunder, AH El Hassani… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the routing and scheduling of caregivers in a home health care
problem. In order to obtain a valid planning, some skill, time window, and synchronization …

A decision support framework for home health care transportation with simultaneous multi-vehicle routing and staff scheduling synchronization

JA Nasir, YH Kuo - Decision Support Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the ageing population and the prevalence of chronic diseases, Home Health Care
(HHC) practices are significantly increasing in developed countries to provide coordinated …