Blood transfusion is a routine medical procedure in hospitals with over 2 million blood products transfused in the UK every year at a cost of over£ 300 million and a median …
No one doubts the significant variation in the practice of transfusion medicine. Common examples are the variability in transfusion thresholds and the use of tranexamic acid for …
We study a stochastic perishable inventory control problem with endogenous (decision- dependent) uncertainty in shelf-life of units. Our primary motivation is determining ordering …
In an Inventory Routing Problem (IRP), a decision-maker decides the number of units delivered to each retailer and determines delivery routes, which becomes increasingly …
Determining order quantities for platelet and Red Blood Cell (RBC) units at hospitals is a challenging task since they are perishable and their usage is subject to high uncertainty. In …