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

Bachouch, Rym Ben; Guinet, Alain; Hajri-Gabouj, Sonia

doi:10.1080/16258312.2011.11517250

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“…The problem of service definition and access has similarities to investment portfolio selection: choosing the set of home health care services to offer and identifying the corresponding target patients can be OR approach (number of papers) Solution method (reference) 2017; Shi et al, 2017a) Combination of clustering and variable neighbourhood search (Erdem & Bulkan, 2017) Repeated matching (Eveborn et al, 2006;Eveborn et al, 2009) Tabu search (Liu et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2014;Rest & Hirsch, 2015) Discrete event driven metaheuristics Record-to-record travel algorithm (Hewitt et al, 2016) Harmony search (Lin et al, 2018) Branch and price (Rasmussen et al, 2012;Manerba & Mansini, 2016;Liu et al, 2017) Fuzzy-based particle swarm optimisation algorithm Variable neighbourhood search Nasir & Dang, 2018) Combination of dynamic programming and tabu search (Rest & Hirsch, 2016) Other heuristic algorithm (An et al, 2012;Bard et al, 2013;Bard, Shao, Qi, et al, 2014;Mankowska et al, 2014;Maya Duque et al, 2015;Decerle et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2018) Not specified -commercially available software (Bachouch et al, 2011;Bard et al, 2013;En-Nahli et al, 2015;Nasir & Dang, 2016;Yalçında g et al 2016) Constraint programming (n ¼ 4)…”

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Operational research applied to decisions in home health care: A systematic literature review

Grieco

Utley²,

Crowe

2020

Journal of the Operational Research Society

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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 identify and review operational research approaches to support decision-making in home health care. We identified a set of linked decisions at different planning levels (strategic, tactical, operational) and conducted a systematic review of operational research approaches used to address these decisions. We also sampled OR literature applied to analogous decisions in other settings. The 77 papers selected focused predominantly on solutions for staff-to-patient allocation, visit scheduling and staff routing, few of which were adopted by organisations. Few studies dealt with tactical decisions of team size and composition or strategic decisions of districting, and we found no studies on contract design for commissioning home health care, on staff role definitions or on reassessment of patient need. Integrative work is scarce and the aspects of system performance considered are variable and diverse. For these reasons the literature does not provide guidance for home health care services aspiring to effective and coherent decisions across planning levels. OR approaches from other areas of application provide some insights for future research aimed at addressing this shortfall.

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Operational research applied to decisions in home health care: A systematic literature review

Grieco

Utley²,

Crowe

2020

Journal of the Operational Research Society

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“…However, the planning period can range from a single day to multiple weeks, months or even years (see, for instance, Bachouch et al (2011)). In Multi-Period HHC problems, patients might request multiple services spread over different days of a week or month, which requires HHC planners to consider factors such as working time regulations and continuity of care.…”

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“…Regarding the number of objectives, many existing studies opt to consider only one single objective (see, for instance, Akjiratikarl et al (2007) and Bachouch et al (2011)).…”

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Planning the Delivery of Home-Based Long-Term Care: A Mathematical Programming-Based Tool to Support Routes’ Planning

Espadinha

Cardoso-Grilo

2019

Springer Proceedings in Mathematics &Amp; Statistics

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The adequate planning of home-based long-term care (HBLTC) is essential in the current European setting where long-term care (LTC) demand is increasing rapidly, and where homebased care represents a potential cost-saving alternative from traditional inpatient care. Particularly, this planning should involve proper route planning to ensure visits of health professionals to patients' homes. Nevertheless, literature in the specific area of HBLTC planning is still scarce. Accordingly, this paper proposes a tool based on a mathematical programming modelthe LTC routes -for supporting the daily planning of routes to visit LTC patients' homes in National Health Service-based countries. The model allows exploring the impact of considering different objectives relevant in this sector, including the minimization of costs and the maximization of service level. Patients' preferences, traffic conditions and budget constraints are also considered in the proposed model. To illustrate the applicability of the model, a case study based on the National Network of LTC in Portugal (RNCCI) is analysed.

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“…Bachouch et al. () considered the minimization of the total travel time as objective function. Duque et al.…”

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“…Constraints: The time windows constraint is considered in the majority of papers dealing with home care routing and scheduling. It appears either as a difficult or flexible constraint, and models the availability of customers and caregivers (Bredström and Rönnqvist, ; Bachouch et al., ; Afifi et al., ). The synchronization constraint is when several caregivers are needed at the same time to carry out the total or a part of service.…”

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

Frifita

Masmoudi

2018

Int Trans Operational Res

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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 researchers in the Operation Research community have been attracted by this issue, which presents interesting aspects related to the vehicle routing problems. In this paper, we consider a new variant called the vehicle routing problem with time windows, temporal dependencies (synchronization, precedence, and disjunction), multi‐structures, and multispecialties problem (VRPTW‐TD‐2MS). This new variant is an extension of the vehicle routing problems with time windows and synchronization constraints (VRPTW‐S) that is well‐studied in literature. We present a Mixed Integer Programming method, and propose three Variable Neighborhood Search approaches. Extensive experiments show the effectiveness and efficiency of the General Variable Neighborhood Search with Ejection Chains‐based local search for solving VRPTW‐TD‐2MS and VRPTW‐S.

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

Cited by 40 publications

References 9 publications

Operational research applied to decisions in home health care: A systematic literature review

Operational research applied to decisions in home health care: A systematic literature review

Planning the Delivery of Home-Based Long-Term Care: A Mathematical Programming-Based Tool to Support Routes’ Planning

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

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