Operations Research for Health Care in Red Zone
ORAHS 2022, Bergamo, Italy, July 17–22
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The EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS) provides a network for researchers involved in the application of systematic and quantitative analysis in the planning and mana...
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Fairness and balancing-related metrics can be modelled in several ways, and no single definition of fairness is universally accepted. From the application point of view, fairness is a rather common objective i...
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A new scheduling problem arising in the home care context is addressed, whose novelty with respect to the literature lies in the way overtime is paid. In this problem, some clients are willing to pay a higher ...
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Blood is a key resource in all health care systems, usually drawn from voluntary donors. We focus on the operations management in blood collection centers, which is a key step to guarantee an adequate blood su...
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We consider the management of a blood collection center, which includes the features of both a production system and a service provider. In particular, we analyze the scheduling of donors and the related appoi...
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The admission of new patients to Home Care (HC) services is a relevant problem, which requires managing waiting lists while respecting a maximum admissible period between patient’s request and service beginnin...
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