The home health care routing and scheduling problem with interdependent services

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-30

  Mankowska, Dorota Slawa ^a   Meisel, Frank ^a   Bierwirth, Christian ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Double services; Home health care; Routing and scheduling; Temporal interdependencies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST; HOME CARE; JOB SATISFACTION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TIME; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HOME CARE AGENCIES; HOME CARE SERVICES; JOB SATISFACTION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84897649974     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-013-9243-1     Document Type: Article

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