Multi-agent Approach for Solving the Dynamic Home Health Care Routing Problem

López-Santana, Eduyn Ramiro; Espejo-Díaz, Julián Alberto; Méndez-Giraldo, Germán Andrés

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50880-1_17

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“…For systems where nurses are considered permanent salaried staff, while there is some prospect of cost reduction through reduced overtime or optimal dimensioning of the workforce, the objectives of allocation, scheduling and routing models (e.g. Carello et al, 2018;Decerle et al, 2018;L opez-Santana et al, 2016) focus more on the opportunity costs of travel times and unutilised staff time.…”

Section: Treatment Of Workforcementioning

confidence: 99%

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

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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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Section: Treatment Of Workforcementioning

confidence: 99%