Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 455-462 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Transfusion |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1979 |