Robust nurse-to-patient assignment in home care services to minimize overtimes under continuity of care

Operations Research for Health Care

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 48-58

  Lanzarone, Ettore ^a   Matta, Andrea ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuity of care; Home care; Nurse to patient assignment; Stochastic demands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901265269     PISSN: 22116923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orhc.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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