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A Regional Blood Management System with Prescheduled Deliveries
Author(s) -
Brodheim E.,
Prastacos G. P.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1979.19479250183.x
Subject(s) - blood management , blood transfusion , medicine , distribution (mathematics) , blood bank , operations management , autotransfusion , business , emergency medicine , surgery , engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The prescheduling of blood deliveries from regional blood centers can improve blood availability at all transfusion services while reducing outdating, delivery costs and inventories maintained at region blood centers. A procedure for determining optimal distribution policies that maintain the highest possible blood availability at transfusion services while holding the achievable outdating level to a small percentage of the total usage is described. The manner in which this plan is being implemented in Long Island, New York, is presented, as well as a discussion of some preliminary results.