Optimisation and control of the supply of blood bags in hemotherapic centres via Markov decision process with discounted arrival rate

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Highlights：

• We study and inventory management problem at blood banks.

• The inventory can be supplemented by external collection teams.

• We propose a Markov decision process to model the decisions.

• The model accounts for the perishability of blood supplies.

• The model is applied to a real case study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

摘要

•We study and inventory management problem at blood banks.•The inventory can be supplemented by external collection teams.•We propose a Markov decision process to model the decisions.•The model accounts for the perishability of blood supplies.•The model is applied to a real case study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

论文关键词：OR in health services,Perishable inventory,Blood,Stochastic modeling,Blood management

论文评审过程：Received 28 February 2019, Revised 28 December 2019, Accepted 2 January 2020, Available online 8 January 2020, Version of Record 16 April 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2020.101791