title: Exploring new operational research opportunities within the Home Care context: the chemotherapy at home.
abstract: Home Care (HC) services provide complex and coordinated medical and paramedical care to patients at their homes. As health care services move into the home setting, the need for developing innovative approaches that improve the efficiency of home care organizations increases. We first conduct a literature review of investigations dealing with operation planning within the area of home care management. We then address a particular issue dealing with the planning of operations related to chemotherapy at home as it is an emergent problem in the French context. Our interest is focused on issues specific to the anti-cancer drug supply chain. We identify various models that can be developed and analyze one of them.
authors.affiliation: HSCMG, Department of Information Systems and Computing, School of Informatics, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW, UK. S.Chahed@westminster.ac.uk
authors.forename: Salma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chahed
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marcon
authors.forename: Evren
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sahin
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Feillet
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Dallery
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D009874:Operations Research; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000458:organization & administration
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents