Mathematical model for pattern-based medical team planning problem

Home healthcare is of great convenience to the patients and can also ease the overcrowded medical settings. The issue of paramedics arrangement is critical but still unsettled. Existing researches mainly focused on the assignment of single nurse, or daily multi-nurse scheduling. In this paper, we study the medical team planning problem in a weekly horizon, and the characters of each team including nursing type, skill level and number of nurses are considered. To jointly address these characters, we introduce patterns in our mathematical model. Moreover, nursing consistency is restricted in the constraints to improve patient satisfaction. Computational experiments are to be further conducted.