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Optimal Schedule of Home Care Visits for a Health Care Center

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017 (ICCSA 2017)

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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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This work has been supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013.

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  1. Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, 5301-857, Bragança, Portugal

    Filipe Alves, Ana I. Pereira, Florbela P. Fernandes, Adília Fernandes & Paulo Leitão

  2. Algoritmi R&D Centre, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Ana I. Pereira

  3. LIACC, University of Porto, R. Campo Alegre 1021, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal

    Paulo Leitão

  4. ULSNE, Unidade Local de Saúde do Nordeste, Av. Abade de Baçal, 5301-852, Bragança, Portugal

    Anabela Martins

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Alves, F., Pereira, A.I., Fernandes, F.P., Fernandes, A., Leitão, P., Martins, A. (2017). Optimal Schedule of Home Care Visits for a Health Care Center. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10406. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62398-6_10

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