A regional blood management system with prescheduled deliveries

E. Brodheim, G. P. Prastacos

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)455-462
Number of pages8
JournalTransfusion
Volume19
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1979

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