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Multiple Service Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem: A Mathematical Model

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The home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP) is an extension of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) that are scheduled and routed to perform a wide range of health care services. Nurses, doctors and/or caregivers provide these services at patients’ home. In this study, a mathematical model for HHCRSP is presented. The model is extended to take into account additional characteristics and/or constraints based on specific services, patient needs. In the home health care (HHC) problems, services that must be performed simultaneously or within a convinced time are undoubtedly very important. Thus, we consider several numbers of services, skill requirements for the care workers and time windows. Generally, the main aim of the HHC problems is minimizing the travelling distance as well as maximizing the patients’ satisfaction. Thus, the model in this study contains both of these objectives taking into account several measurements.

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  1. Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey

    Asiye Ozge Dengiz & Kumru Didem Atalay

  2. Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

    Fulya Altiparmak

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    Stefan Trzcielinski

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Dengiz, A.O., Atalay, K.D., Altiparmak, F. (2020). Multiple Service Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem: A Mathematical Model. In: Karwowski, W., Trzcielinski, S., Mrugalska, B. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing, Production Management and Process Control. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 971. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20494-5_27

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