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Patient And Nurse Considerations In Home Health Routing With Remote Monitoring Devices, Jessica Spicer
Patient And Nurse Considerations In Home Health Routing With Remote Monitoring Devices, Jessica Spicer
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We build on the current consistent vehicle routing problem literature by formulating a novel multi- objective mathematical model of the home health scheduling and routing problem that includes the option of assigning some patient visits to remote monitoring devices, with the objectives of mini- mizing total cost, achieving nurse consistency and creating balanced nurse workloads. A heuristic solution approach that approximates the efficient frontier of this multiobjective problem is pre- sented and validated, and the results of using this methodology to solve several realistic instances are included. We also analyze the assignment of patients to devices and present some managerial …