A Decision-Making Tool for Home Health Care Nurses' Planning

This article deals with problems encountered be routing nurses through home health care services. It is difficult to assign patients to different care workers by taking into account their availability and their skills. If patients need several cares during a week, they may be treated by the same emp...

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Published inSupply chain forum Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 14 - 20
Main Authors Bachouch, Rym Ben, Guinet, Alain, Hajri-Gabouj, Sonia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 01.01.2011
Kedge Business School
SeriesILS & GISEH Conferences 2008
Subjects
Computer Science
home health care
mathematical modeling
mixed linear program
Operations Research
resource planning
scheduling
resource planning
scheduling
mathematical modeling
home health care
mixed linear program
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Summary:This article deals with problems encountered be routing nurses through home health care services. It is difficult to assign patients to different care workers by taking into account their availability and their skills. If patients need several cares during a week, they may be treated by the same employee. We show that this problem is equivalent to a routing problem with some specific constraints. We propose an integer linear program for deciding (1) which human resource should be used and (2) when to execute the service during the planning horizon in order to satisfy the care plan for each patient served by the home health care providers.
ISSN:1625-8312
1624-6039
DOI:10.1080/16258312.2011.11517250