Multi-objective home health nurse routing with remote monitoring devices
by Ashlea Bennett Milburn; Jessica Spicer
International Journal of Planning and Scheduling (IJPS), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2013

Abstract: A multi-objective home health nurse routing and scheduling problem variant with the option of assigning some patient visits to remote monitoring devices is defined. A metaheuristic solution approach that approximates the Pareto optimal frontier for travel cost, nurse consistency and balanced workload objectives is developed. This set of objectives represents possibly conflicting interests - those of the agency, patients, and nurse workforce. A computational study is conducted to determine the tradeoffs among these objectives when creating nurse routes and schedules.

Online publication date: Mon, 30-Jun-2014

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