Optimal procedures for home visits — a case study

Alves, Filipe; Fernandes, Florbela P.; Pereira, Ana I.; Fernandes, Adília

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Alves, Filipe

Fernandes, Florbela P.

Pereira, Ana I.

Fernandes, Adília

Abstract(s)

In Portugal the population is ageing. Therefore, the provision of health care at patients’ home is becoming an important social and health area; this health service is provided by professional teams (usually composed by nurses) of the Health Centers. Nowadays, the scheduling of the visits is made manually. The proposal of this work is to do the scheduling automatically in order to minimize the overall time spent by the professional teams in the visiting activity. In this work the genetic algorithm was used to solve the optimization problem. Some numerical results are presented.

Keywords

Genetic algorithm Health care

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http://hdl.handle.net/10198/17232

Citation

Alves, Filipe; Fernandes, Florbela P.; Pereira, Ana I.; Fernandes, Adília (2017). Optimal procedures for home visits — a case study. In International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM). Rhodes: AMER Institute of Physics. ISBN 978-0-7354-1538-6