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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of the home health care planning literature: emerging trends and future research directions

S Chabouh, A El-Amraoui, S Hammami… - Decision Analytics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Patients are traditionally treated in hospitals and healthcare facilities. However, many care
services known as Home Health Care (HHC) are provided at patients' homes. Despite the …