Date of Graduation
5-2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering (MSIE)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
Industrial Engineering
Advisor/Mentor
Ashlea Milburn
Committee Member
Ed Pohl
Second Committee Member
Chase Rainwater
Keywords
Health and environmental sciences, Applied sciences
Abstract
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 insights into making these assignments in practice.
Citation
Spicer, J. (2012). Patient and Nurse Considerations in Home Health Routing with Remote Monitoring Devices. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/404