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Optimal schedule of home care visits for a health care center

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Resumo:	The provision of home health care services is becoming an important research area, mainly because in Portugal the population is ageing. Home care visits are organized taking into account the medical treatments and general support that elder/sick people need at home. This health service can be provided by nurse teams from Health Care Centers. Usually, the visits are manually planned and without computer support. The main goal of this work is to carry out the automatic schedule of home care visits, of one Portuguese Health Care Center, in order to minimize the time spent in all home care visits and, consequently, reduce the costs involved. The developed algorithms were coded in MatLab Software and the problem was efficiently solved, obtaining several schedule solutions of home care visits for the presented data. Solutions found by genetic and particle swarm algorithms lead to significant time reductions for both nurse teams and patients.
Autores principais:	Alves, Filipe
Outros Autores:	Pereira, Ana I.; Fernandes, Florbela P.; Fernandes, Adília; Leitão, Paulo; Martins, Anabela
Assunto:	Genetic Algorithm Health care services Optimization Particle Swarm Optimization Scheduling
Ano:	2017
País:	Portugal
Tipo de documento:	comunicação em conferência
Tipo de acesso:	acesso aberto
Instituição associada:	Universidade Politécnica de Bragança
Idioma:	inglês
Origem:	Biblioteca Digital da UPB

Descrição
Resumo:	The provision of home health care services is becoming an important research area, mainly because in Portugal the population is ageing. Home care visits are organized taking into account the medical treatments and general support that elder/sick people need at home. This health service can be provided by nurse teams from Health Care Centers. Usually, the visits are manually planned and without computer support. The main goal of this work is to carry out the automatic schedule of home care visits, of one Portuguese Health Care Center, in order to minimize the time spent in all home care visits and, consequently, reduce the costs involved. The developed algorithms were coded in MatLab Software and the problem was efficiently solved, obtaining several schedule solutions of home care visits for the presented data. Solutions found by genetic and particle swarm algorithms lead to significant time reductions for both nurse teams and patients.

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