Better management of blood supply-chain with GIS-based analytics

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 181-193

  Delen, Dursun ^a   Erraguntla, Madhav ^b   Mayer, Richard J ^b   Wu, Chang Nien ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis at multiple levels of abstraction; Blood inventory management; Data mining; Data validation; Geographic Information System (GIS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953730010     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0616-2     Document Type: Article

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