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 …

Operational research applied to decisions in home health care: A systematic literature review

L Grieco, M Utley, S Crowe - Journal of the Operational Research …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The efficient deployment of resources in home-based care is considered crucial for the
sustainability of health and social care systems worldwide. The aim of this study was to …

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 …

Mathematical model and exact algorithm for the home care worker scheduling and routing problem with lunch break requirements

R Liu, B Yuan, Z Jiang - International Journal of Production …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Home health care or home care (HHC/HC) refers to the delivery of social, medical and
paramedical services to clients in their own homes. Each day, care workers start from the …

Scheduling the hospital-wide flow of elective patients

D Gartner, R Kolisch - European Journal of Operational Research, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we address the problem of planning the patient flow in hospitals subject to
scarce medical resources with the objective of maximizing the contribution margin. We …

A three-step optimization-based algorithm for home healthcare delivery

J Guo, JF Bard - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines the problem of providing healthcare services to patients who reside at
various aging, rehabilitation and treatment facilities or who are home bound, and who may …

Planning in home health care structures: A literature review

M Di Mascolo, ML Espinouse, Z El Hajri - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2017 - Elsevier
The good running of a Home Health Care Structure implies the resolution of several
complex problems. In this literature review, we give an overview of current work dealing with …

A home hospitalization assignment and routing problem with multiple time windows, mandatory returns and perishable biological samples: A Chilean case study

M Varas, F Baesler, F Basso, JP Contreras… - Computers & Industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increase in life expectancy and formal care has fostered the demand for home care
services, including home hospitalization. For this service, decision-makers must allocate the …

The multi-period home healthcare routing and scheduling problem with electric vehicles

OA Yazır, Ç Koç, E Yücel - Or Spectrum, 2023 - Springer
This paper studies the multi-period home healthcare routing and scheduling problem with
homogeneous electric vehicles and time windows. The problem aims to construct the weekly …