Study on the Centralization Strategy of the Blood Allocation Among Different Departments within a Hospital

By far, the researches on how to distribute blood products among different departments in hospital have not been further studied, though the problem of blood shortage and wastage that caused by improper blood allocation is severe, which may endanger patient’s lives and impose considerable costs on h...

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Published in:Journal of systems science and systems engineering 2018-08, Vol.27 (4), p.417-434
Main Authors: Duan, Jingnan, Su, Qiang, Zhu, Yanhong, Lu, Yuanshan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blood
Blood products
Complexity
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Engineering
Hospitals
Integer programming
Inventory management
Mixed integer
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Shortages
Supply chains
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Summary:By far, the researches on how to distribute blood products among different departments in hospital have not been further studied, though the problem of blood shortage and wastage that caused by improper blood allocation is severe, which may endanger patient’s lives and impose considerable costs on hospitals. In order to solve this problem, this paper mainly studies on how to distribute the blood items among different departments within a hospital and investigates the allocation approach with the novel management method by centralizing the inventory of several different departments. By integrating the blood inventory requirements of some departments, the hospital could reduce the rate of blood shortage and wastage effectively, release the pressure of the occupancy of resources and reduce the bullwhip effect of blood products. This paper illustrates the centralization principle in hospital and formulates the mixed integer programming model to work out the optimal allocation network scheme and the optimal inventory setting for every department. And the results of the numerical example demonstrate that this centralization method could considerably reduce blood shortage and wastage in hospital by about 72% and 90% respectively. Furthermore, it could decrease the total cost by about 108,540 RMB a month on blood supply chain management in the hospital and improve the effect of some certain surgeries by transfusing the fresh blood to patients.
ISSN:1004-3756
1861-9576
DOI:10.1007/s11518-018-5377-5