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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A bi-objective home care scheduling problem: Analyzing the trade-off between costs and client inconvenience

K Braekers, RF Hartl, SN Parragh, F Tricoire - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Organizations providing home care services are inclined to optimize their activities in order
to meet the constantly increasing demand for home care. In this context, home care …

A multi-objective home healthcare delivery model and its solution using a branch-and-price algorithm and a two-stage meta-heuristic algorithm

F Alkaabneh, A Diabat - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of optimization techniques to home care service planning has received
increasing attention, as more patients are in need of dedicated care. Currently, the problem …

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 …

A multi-objective consistent home healthcare routing and scheduling problem in an uncertain environment

M Yang, Y Ni, L Yang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Home health care (HHC) companies serve as the alternative to hospitals aiming to provide
customers with medical care at home. A crucial challenge for HHC providers is to optimize …

[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 set partitioning heuristic for the home health care routing and scheduling problem

F Grenouilleau, A Legrain, N Lahrichi… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The home health care routing and scheduling problem comprises the assignment and
routing of a set of home care visits over the duration of a week. These services allow patients …

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 …