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 …

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 …

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 …

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 three-phase methodology for home healthcare routing and scheduling under uncertainty

M Shiri, F Ahmadizar, H Mahmoudzadeh - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Home healthcare aims to ensure that ill, disabled, and elderly patients receive high-quality,
personal, and compassionate care. The current study provides a novel hybrid three-phase …

Cross-regional manpower scheduling and routing problem with stochastic service times in home health care

G Du, J Zhang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
At present, home health care services supply is still insufficient and unbalanced in China,
and the elderly nursing manpower is particularly scarce. Therefore, it is important to …

VNS methods for home care routing and scheduling problem with temporal dependencies, and multiple structures and specialties

S Frifita, M Masmoudi - International transactions in operational …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The need for optimization in the Home Care Service is becoming more and more legitimate
in the face of the increase of demand and cost all over the world. Recently, many …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing an integrated home care problem: A heuristic-based decision-support system

B Vieira, J De Armas, H Ramalhinho - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the continuous increase in longevity worldwide, the elderly population requiring home
health and social care has been continuously growing over the years. Planning combined …