Optimum Utilization of Hospital Ancillary Services: Part III, Appendix II, Hospital Blood Banking: An Evaluation of Inventory Control Policies

摘要

This study is concerned with the Blood Banking subsystem of The Mount Sinai Hospital of the City of New York. It is one of a series of studies dealing with the Optimum Utilization of Hospital Ancillary Services, supported by the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service. During the several years that this series has been in effect, a succession of analytic investigations has been undertaken. The principal objective has been to insure that the human and equipment resources comprising hospital ancillary services are used to their fullest effectiveness, by applying operations research techniques to the problem of improving departmental performance.