A generic modelling framework to evaluate network blood management policies: The Canadian Blood Services experience

Operations Research for Health Care

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 116-128

  Blake, John T ^a,b   Hardy, Matthew ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood inventory; Network distribution; Re useable simulations; Response surface methods; Simulation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902590320     PISSN: 22116923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orhc.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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