Home Health Care Planning with the Consideration of Flexible Starting/Ending Points and Service Features
One of the recently proposed strategies in health systems is providing services to patients at home and improving the service quality in addition to reducing the health system costs. In the real world, some services, such as biological tests or blood sampling, force the nurses to start or end his/he...
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| description | One of the recently proposed strategies in health systems is providing services to patients at home and improving the service quality in addition to reducing the health system costs. In the real world, some services, such as biological tests or blood sampling, force the nurses to start or end his/her route from/at the laboratory instead of the depot, changing the whole optimal planning. The effect of these special service requirements and features has not been considered so far. In this study, a new mathematical model is suggested considering the flexibility of starting/ending places of each nurse’s route according to the specific characteristics of each service. Then, several sets of problems in various sizes are solved using the proposed model, where the results confirm the efficiency of the proposed approach. In addition, some sensitivity analyses are performed on the parameters of the required features of the services, followed by some managerial insights and directions for future studies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-77a3b09ea01f439383d758e1145186a12023-12-01T23:24:28ZengMDPI AGAxioms2075-16802022-07-0111836210.3390/axioms11080362Home Health Care Planning with the Consideration of Flexible Starting/Ending Points and Service FeaturesPouria Khodabandeh0Vahid Kayvanfar1Majid Rafiee2Frank Werner3Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 1458889694, IranDivision of Engineering Management and Decision Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha P.O. Box 34110, QatarDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 1458889694, IranFaculty of Mathematics, Otto-Von-Guericke-University, P.O. Box 4120, 39016 Magdeburg, GermanyOne of the recently proposed strategies in health systems is providing services to patients at home and improving the service quality in addition to reducing the health system costs. In the real world, some services, such as biological tests or blood sampling, force the nurses to start or end his/her route from/at the laboratory instead of the depot, changing the whole optimal planning. The effect of these special service requirements and features has not been considered so far. In this study, a new mathematical model is suggested considering the flexibility of starting/ending places of each nurse’s route according to the specific characteristics of each service. Then, several sets of problems in various sizes are solved using the proposed model, where the results confirm the efficiency of the proposed approach. In addition, some sensitivity analyses are performed on the parameters of the required features of the services, followed by some managerial insights and directions for future studies.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/8/362home health carenurseintegrated routing and schedulingoptimizationflexible starting and ending pointsspecial service requirements |
| spellingShingle | Pouria Khodabandeh Vahid Kayvanfar Majid Rafiee Frank Werner Home Health Care Planning with the Consideration of Flexible Starting/Ending Points and Service Features Axioms home health care nurse integrated routing and scheduling optimization flexible starting and ending points special service requirements |
| title | Home Health Care Planning with the Consideration of Flexible Starting/Ending Points and Service Features |
| title_full | Home Health Care Planning with the Consideration of Flexible Starting/Ending Points and Service Features |
| title_fullStr | Home Health Care Planning with the Consideration of Flexible Starting/Ending Points and Service Features |
| title_full_unstemmed | Home Health Care Planning with the Consideration of Flexible Starting/Ending Points and Service Features |
| title_short | Home Health Care Planning with the Consideration of Flexible Starting/Ending Points and Service Features |
| title_sort | home health care planning with the consideration of flexible starting ending points and service features |
| topic | home health care nurse integrated routing and scheduling optimization flexible starting and ending points special service requirements |
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