Health Scores for Generating Health-Respecting Shift Plans by Means of an Expert System from the Perspective of Care Organisations

Damian Kutzias, Sandra Frings, Stefan Strunck, Petra Gaugisch

2024

Abstract

The care section is an essential part of our society as well as our everyday life. It is also a section which suffers from staff shortage. Even though the job itself is not the problem, the shortage is related to shift-related below-average working conditions. This work focuses on health-related aspects of shift planning in order to provide insights which can assist in improving the situation of care workers. To this end, a literature and law analysis was followed by interviews to collect, aggregate and extend health-related rules for the shift planning process. A list of derived rules from practice is presented in addition to a discussion of previous insights from literature. Based on these rules, a publicly available software demonstrator was implemented for sensitisation and to show how a health-focused shift plan generation could look like. The basis for shift plan evaluation is a health score definition, which takes into account the number of shifts and weighted rule violations. The demonstrator was also used on shift plan data covering several years, resulting in insights about rule violations from practice.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kutzias D., Frings S., Strunck S. and Gaugisch P. (2024). Health Scores for Generating Health-Respecting Shift Plans by Means of an Expert System from the Perspective of Care Organisations. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE; ISBN 978-989-758-700-9, SciTePress, pages 121-131. DOI: 10.5220/0012557200003699

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe24,
author={Damian Kutzias and Sandra Frings and Stefan Strunck and Petra Gaugisch},
title={Health Scores for Generating Health-Respecting Shift Plans by Means of an Expert System from the Perspective of Care Organisations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE},
year={2024},
pages={121-131},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012557200003699},
isbn={978-989-758-700-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE
TI - Health Scores for Generating Health-Respecting Shift Plans by Means of an Expert System from the Perspective of Care Organisations
SN - 978-989-758-700-9
AU - Kutzias D.
AU - Frings S.
AU - Strunck S.
AU - Gaugisch P.
PY - 2024
SP - 121
EP - 131
DO - 10.5220/0012557200003699
PB - SciTePress