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Setting Inventory Levels for Hospital Blood Banks

Transfusion, 1976
A method is devised to predict the hospital blood bank inventory of each of the eight blood types that will be adequate on all but a given fraction of days (shortage rate). Analysis of the model confirms and extends prior statistical models and provides a rationale for a number of observations made on some common blood inventory practices.
E, Brodheim, R, Hirsch, G, Prastocos
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Optimal inventory policy within hospital space constraints

Health Care Management Science, 2008
The materials management group at any hospital is responsible for ensuring that their inventory policies provide a good service in delivering products. The group also needs to be aware of their own costs for distribution, in terms of the frequency of delivery.
James, Little, Brian, Coughlan
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Hospital pharmacy purchases and inventories

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1979
The results of the hospital pharmacy purchases and inventories portion of a 1978 national mail survey of pharmaceutical services in short-term hospitals are reported. A sample of 815 hospitals was selected randomly from among 5,200 U.S. short-term hospitals that employ a pharmacist on at least a part-time basis.
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Hospital Stockpiling Problems with Inventory Sharing

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016
Hospitals are typically optimized to operate near capacity, and there are serious concerns that our healthcare system is not prepared for the next pandemic. Stockpiles of different supplies, e.g., personal protective equipments (PPE) and medical equipment, need to be maintained in order to be able to respond to any future pandemics ...
Eric Lofgren, Anil Vullikanti
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Computer Approach to Hospital Blood Bank Inventory Control

Transfusion, 1969
Since February of 1967, the Yale‐New Haven Hospital's laboratory computer (IBM 1130) has been used for data acquisition and inventory control in the blood bank. The program has been designed to replace existing systems without adding personnel so that all procedures, including key punching and computer operation, are carried out by the blood bank ...
J R, Bove, D K, McKay
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The Henry Ford Hospital Headache Disability Inventory (HDI)

Neurology, 1994
To quantify the impact of headache of daily living, we developed a 25-item headache disability inventory (HDI). The alpha version of the HDI (alpha-HDI) consisted of 40 items, each requiring a "yes" (four points), "sometimes" (two points), or "no" (zero points) response based on items derived empirically from case history responses of subjects with ...
G P, Jacobson, N M, Ramadan, S K, Aggarwal, C W, Newman   +3 more
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Inventory management in Sydney Public Hospital Blood Banks

Transfusion Medicine, 1994
SUMMARY. Monitoring the outdating of donated units is one way of assessing the efficiency of blood usage. Inventory management in public hospital blood banks in Sydney was reviewed with the aim of determining factors which lead to the outdating of donor blood.
J, Pink, A, Thomson, B, Wylie
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Inventory control in hospital blood banks

Omega, 1975
Abstract The delicate relationship between donors and the Transfusion Service in the U.K. implies a clear duty to make the best possible use of the limited blood supplies, and this turns attention upon the stocking policies adopted by Hospital Blood Banks.
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Evaluating inventory turns for a hospital environment

Computers & Industrial Engineering, 1987
Abstract This paper presents a unique approach, using a modified traditional EOQ model, to manipulate yearly inventory turns and generate optimal space requirements for the Stores operations at Georgetown University Hospital (GUH). The analysis used six months of material dispensed transaction data along with item cost and item size; it generated by ...
Rajiv Kapur, Chris Moberg
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Hospital Inventory Management for Emergency Demand

International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, 1993
Inventory management is receiving increased emphasis in a variety of organizations. One important area is inventory that is subject to emergency demand situations. A hospital materials manager, for example, must establish efficient inventory system policies for normal operating conditions that also ensure the hospital's ability to meet emergency demand
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