Nurse-patient relationship for multi-period home health care routing and scheduling problem.

ABSTRACT: This article proposes a novel dynamic objective function in a multi-period home health care (HHC) problem, known as the nurse-patient relationship (NPR). The nurse-patient relationship score indicating the trust a patient has for his or her care worker increases when the same people meet regularly and decreases when they are apart. Managing human resources in HHC is a combination of routing and scheduling problems. Due to computational complexity of the HHC problem, a 28-day home health care problem is decomposed into daily subproblems, and solved sequentially with the tabu search. The solutions are then combined to give a solution to the original problem. For problems with less complex constraints, the NPR model can also be solved using exact methods such as CPLEX. For larger scale instan

SUBMITTER: Krityakierne T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9140252 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature