Browsing Journal Articles by Subject "Hospital blood banks"

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    • Blood bank inventory management in India 

      Harshal, Lowalekar; Ravichandran, N. (Springer Science+Business Media, 2014)
      In this paper we provide an overview of the recent contributions in the area of blood bank inventory management and relate them to the challenges in the Indian context. We study the current blood-banking scenario in India ...

    • A combined age-and-stock-based policy for ordering blood units in hospital blood banks 

      Ravichandran, N.; Lowalekar, Harshal (International Transactions in Operational Research, 2015)
      This paper analyses the performance of an ordering policy for hospital blood banks (HBBs) that takes into account the information regarding the on-hand stock along with the remaining life of blood products. The blood items ...