Methods of strategic planning for blood services.
Among the operations research methods applied to strategic planning problems mixed integer programming has proven to be a very useful framework for a mathematical formulation of the important strategic relations in blood services. A case study shows how the method works with mathematical details omitted. The input data and the results are illustrated and discussed.
D001771:Blood Banks / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D001782:Blood Donors; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006801:Humans