title: Modeling and simulation of blood collection systems.
abstract: This paper addresses the modeling and simulation of blood collection systems in France for both fixed site and mobile blood collection with walk in whole blood donors and scheduled plasma and platelet donors. Petri net models are first proposed to precisely describe different blood collection processes, donor behaviors, their material/human resource requirements and relevant regulations. Petri net models are then enriched with quantitative modeling of donor arrivals, donor behaviors, activity times and resource capacity. Relevant performance indicators are defined. The resulting simulation models can be straightforwardly implemented with any simulation language. Numerical experiments are performed to show how the simulation models can be used to select, for different walk in donor arrival patterns, appropriate human resource planning and donor appointment strategies.
authors: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, 158 cours Fauriel, 42023 Saint-Étienne cedex 2, France.
authors: Edgar
authors: E
authors: Alfonso
authors: Xiaolan
authors: X
authors: Xie
authors: Vincent
authors: V
authors: Augusto
authors: Olivier
authors: O
authors: Garraud
mesh_terms: D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D001519:Behavior; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D013997:Time Factors; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology*