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Optimizing Blood Assignment in a Donation–Transfusion System
Author(s) -
De Angelis V.,
Ricciardi N.,
Storchi G.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/1475-3995.00258
Subject(s) - donation , blood donor , blood transfusion , medicine , blood donations , product (mathematics) , blood product , blood units , order (exchange) , operations management , intensive care medicine , computer science , operations research , surgery , business , mathematics , engineering , immunology , geometry , finance , economics , economic growth
A multi‐product, multi‐period, multi‐objective linear programming model has been built as a contribution to good management of a blood donation–transfusion system in order to determine the best assignment of blood resources to demand, which minimizes the quantity of blood imported from outside the system and stabilizes the quantities assigned daily. The model has been applied to the Italian Red Cross (CRI) blood donation–transfusion system in Rome and to each hospital belonging to such a system, producing interesting results.