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Ettore Lanzarone
English
Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes
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Open AccessA Benders decomposition approach for planning home blood donations
Blood donations are crucial for the health system. We consider the problem of planning blood donation services, where the donors are reached at home. The scope is to minimize the penalty for the unserved donor...
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Open AccessA three-stage matheuristic for home blood donation appointment reservation and collection routing
In Western countries, the so-called Blood Donation Supply Chain (BDSC) provides blood units to several health services. Its first echelon is the collection of unit from donors, which requires a careful managem...
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Open AccessPredicting donations and profiling donors in a blood collection center: a Bayesian approach
Donor profiling and donation prediction are two key tasks that any blood collection center must face. Profiling is important to target promotion campaigns, recruiting donors who will guarantee a high productio...
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Analytics and Optimization in Healthcare Management
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An optimization tool to dimension innovative home health care services with devices and disposable materials
Home health care (HHC) consists of care services provided to patients at their domicile rather than in hospitals or other health facilities. HHC human resources are largely studied in the optimization literatu...
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A Bayesian framework for describing and predicting the stochastic demand of home care patients
Home care providers are complex structures which include medical, paramedical and social services delivered to patients at their domicile. High randomness affects the service delivery, mainly in terms of unpl...
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A cost assignment policy for home care patients
The patient assignment problem in Home care (HC) consists of allocating each newly admitted patient to his/her reference operator, chosen among a set of possible operators. The continuity of care, where pursue...
