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In order to cope with the growing demand for hospitalisation and to improve patient satisfaction, alternatives to traditional hospitalisation are being developed all over the world. One of them is the hospital at home.
Therefore, the objective of this thesis is to highlight promising research questions in the area of tactical planning for the hospital at home and to see what implications this has at the short-term level. More specifically, this thesis aims to answer the question: How can tactical planning models for the hospital be adapted to take into account the case of the hospital at home and what are the impacts at the operational level?.
To this end, the thesis will begin with a literature review that will focus on decisions made in hospitals and home health care institutions. All three levels of decisions will be studied, but particular attention will be paid to the tactical level. Then, more information about hospital at home will be given. This part will include a reminder of the differences between home health care and hospital at home. The development of hospital at home in several countries will also be analysed. Finally, the results of the interviews conducted in the framework of this thesis will be presented. These interviews were carried out in various Belgian hospitals offering a service of hospital at home. The last part of the thesis will discuss the adaptations to be made to the hospital’s decision‐making models when the case of hospital at home is considered and will also address the impact of these modifications on the operational level.
As a result, it was seen that there were fewer changes at the tactical level than expected. But that the few changes impacted more strongly on the operational level. Moreover, the changes mainly concern nurses, who are one of the most important resources of the hospital. In addition, the hospital at home could increase the capacity to admit patients, but on the other hand, the hospital would be faced with a lack of staff. At the tactical level, it is therefore wise to think carefully about the selection of shifts and the number of staff per shift, so as not to complicate the daily/weekly management of the nurses.

Hospital at home --- Home health care --- Tactical planning --- Nurses --- Patients --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Production, distribution & gestion de la chaîne logistique --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Domaines particuliers de l'économie (santé, travail, transport...)

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The “Centrale de Services à Domicile” of Huy, Liège, Waremme (CSD) is a non-profit organization which aims at helping people maintain their independence and a high quality of life. One service offered by this structure is to carry people to their non-urgent medical appointments. To achieve this mission, the CSD relies on volunteers, ambulance services or on its own fleet of vehicles which offer collective transport.
As a result of demand growth and difficulties to cope with volunteers, this non-profit organization would like to increase the usage rate of its own fleet of vehicles. However, creating efficient rounds manually is very complex because lots of information has to be taken into account. In the literature, creating rounds to transport people is called a “Dial-a-ride Problem”.
The aim of this project is to propose a computerized solution which will be able to find efficient rounds in a desirable amount of time. This computer program will also help managers taking decisions regarding future actions to undertake in order to make this service grown.
To achieve this goal, we have to get first a deep understanding of how this service is delivered. This part will allow us to set proper parameters in our computer program. Then, we have to carry a literature review in order to find how to deal with dial-a-ride problems. Once a problem-solving method will be chosen, we will implement it in a computer program.
We will demonstrate that the created computer program gives good results and we will be able to give some recommendations on actions to undertake in order to increase usage rate of collective transport. Do we have to open a new supply depot? What kind of vehicles do we have to use? How do we have to organize drivers’ schedules?
However, due to the high complexity of this kind of problem and the number of people to carry via this collective transport, keeping a reasonable computation time was very difficult. So, up to now, only a good initial solution can be found. This computer program needs still some improvements in order to maybe find a better solution. Moreover, it is difficult to validate our conclusions by analyzing several working days. Indeed, gathering information at the CSD is currently not easy.

Dial-a-Ride Problem --- Non-profit organization --- computer program --- Collective transport --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Production, distribution & gestion de la chaîne logistique

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This master thesis analyses the management of Returnable Transportation Items in Belgian organizations in order to obtain a broader view of what is happening in the field and to identify the several issues that could be encountered.
The research has been carried out in four main steps:
The first part of the thesis corresponds to a theoretical analysis, a literature review, to gain insights about the previous works addressing the subject. This encompasses the following points: the terminologies, the history of RTIs and the development of technology in the field.
The second step consists in a series of face-to-face interviews with senior executives from various companies in order to capture more information on RTIs management.
In the third step, the results obtained from the former stage are used to develop a larger-scale mail survey with the aim of reinforcing the problems and improvements wished by organizations.
At last, based on all the information gathered, some recommendation and potential solutions are proposed to improve the management of these Returnable Transport Items.

Returnable Transport Items --- Supply Chain Management --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Production, distribution & gestion de la chaîne logistique