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Operational effectiveness and quality assurance mechanisms with stochastic demand of blood supply: blood bank case study.
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PMID:  22189177     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
A general overview of various blood products operational effectiveness and related strategies that can be utilised by service providers (in particular, healthcare providers) is presented in the present study. In terms of the massive volumes of blood products, the North American blood centres collect more than eight million units of whole blood, which represents appropriately 50% of the US and Quebec, Canada?s volunteer donor blood supply. A case study of the quality inspection and inventory control concerns of the Central Blood Bank, located in the metropolitan area of Pittsburgh, PA, is presented. Initially, brief introduction to its general operating environment is followed by sections describing its general situation, quality–service initiatives, and followed by a fairly detailed discussion of the practical applications of lessons learned from the case study.
Authors:
Alan D Smith
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  International journal of electronic healthcare     Volume:  6     ISSN:  1741-8453     ISO Abbreviation:  Int J Electron Healthc     Publication Date:  2011  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-12-22     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101227192     Medline TA:  Int J Electron Healthc     Country:  Switzerland    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  174-91     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Management and Marketing, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA 15219–3099, USA.
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