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] Synchronisation in vehicle routing: classification schema, modelling framework and literature review

R Soares, A Marques, P Amorim, SN Parragh - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The practical relevance and challenging nature of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) have
motivated the Operations Research community to consider different practical requirements …

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 …

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 …

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 developing and
developed countries, especially when a pandemic such as COVID-19 occurs. The …

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 multi-objective scheduling and routing problem for home health care services via brain storm optimization

X Ma, Y Fu, K Gao, L Zhu… - … System Modeling and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At present, home health care (HHC) has been accepted as an effective method for handling
the healthcare problems of the elderly. The HHC scheduling and routing problem …

A sustainable and efficient home health care network design model under uncertainty

M Shiri, F Ahmadizar, D Thiruvady… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
To cater to the increasing demands, particularly during diseases such as Covid-19, the
design and planning of home health care systems is of significant importance. The current …

[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 biobjective home health care logistics considering the working time and route balancing: a self-adaptive social engineering optimizer

F Goodarzian, A Abraham… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Home health care (HHC) logistics have become a hot research topic in recent years due to
the importance of HHC services for the care of ageing population. The logistics of HHC …