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 …

Home health care routing and scheduling problem with the consideration of outpatient services

Y Li, T **ang, WY Szeto - Transportation research part E: logistics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In China, family doctor contract service can provide not only the home health care service for
the elderly or patients with mobility difficulties at their homes but also the outpatient service …

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 …

A discrete multi-objective grey wolf optimizer for the home health care routing and scheduling problem with priorities and uncertainty

Y Li, C Ye, H Wang, F Wang, X Xu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In China, with the acceleration of the population aging, the demand for home health care is
growing rapidly. However, the available caregivers are insufficient to serve all the customers …

An integrated routing and scheduling problem for home healthcare delivery with limited person-to-person contact

N Yadav, A Tanksale - European Journal of Operational Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents a generalized model for the integrated problem of routing and
scheduling of the home healthcare delivery staff (caregivers) to maximize the revenue …

A cluster-based algorithm for home health care planning: A case study in Australia

D Pahlevani, B Abbasi, JW Hearne… - … Research Part E: Logistics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Home health care (HHC) refers to the delivery of social, medical and paramedical services
to people in their homes. Caregivers are assigned and routed to perform various tasks such …

A bi-objective home care routing and scheduling problem considering patient preference and soft temporal dependency constraints

N Oladzad-Abbasabady… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract A Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem (HHCRSP) is one of the
most practical branches in Home Health Care (HHC) optimization. The main focus of this …

A novel MILP formulation and an efficient heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with lunch break

M Bazirha - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
The vehicle routing problem with time windows and lunch break (VRPTW-LB) is an NP-hard
combinatorial optimization problem that belongs to the vehicle routing problem family. In the …

A multi-objective approach for reducing Patient's inconvenience in a generalized home healthcare delivery setup

N Yadav, A Tanksale - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we present a mixed-integer programming model for a multi-objective home
healthcare delivery problem. The proposed problem is modeled with minimum assumptions …