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 …

[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 …

Multi-objective home health care routing and scheduling with sharing service via a problem-specific knowledge-based artificial bee colony algorithm

YP Fu, XM Ma, KZ Gao, ZW Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, the healthcare of elderly people arouses widespread concerns since the sharp
increase of aging population puts severe stress on public medical resources. Home health …

A bi-objective home healthcare routing and scheduling problem considering patients' satisfaction in a fuzzy environment

AM Fathollahi-Fard, A Ahmadi, F Goodarzian… - Applied soft …, 2020 - Elsevier
Home care services are an alternative answer to hospitalization, and play an important role
in reducing the healthcare costs for governments and healthcare practitioners. To find a …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable and robust home healthcare logistics: A response to the COVID-19 pandemic

AM Fathollahi-Fard, A Ahmadi, B Karimi - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Today, research on healthcare logistics is an important challenge in develo** and
developed countries, especially when a pandemic such as COVID-19 occurs. The …

A matheuristic algorithm for stochastic home health care planning

E Nikzad, M Bashiri, B Abbasi - European Journal of Operational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Efficient human resource planning is the cornerstone of designing an effective home health
care system. Human resource planning in home health care system consists of decisions on …

Hybrid metaheuristics for solving a home health care routing and scheduling problem with time windows, synchronized visits and lunch breaks

W Liu, M Dridi, H Fei, AH El Hassani - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
The home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP), a challenging
operational problem in the field of home health care (HHC), consists of assigning suitable …

Integration routing and scheduling for multiple home health care centers using a multi-objective cooperation evolutionary algorithm with stochastic simulation

X Ma, Y Fu, K Gao, A Sadollah, K Wang - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, population aging has aroused much concern in many countries since the elderly
occupy a lot of social public resources in hospitals and nursing homes. Home health care …

A robust home health care routing-scheduling problem with temporal dependencies under uncertainty

S Shahnejat-Bushehri, R Tavakkoli-Moghaddam… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Inspiring by real-world assumptions, this paper aims to present a robust optimization model
for a home health care routing-scheduling problem with uncertain service and travel times …

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 …