Objective This study aimed to investigate relationship between blood production factors and transfusion sustainability. Methods A self-administered questionnaire was employed to gather data from randomly selected participants in blood banks. Partial least squares structural equation modeling...

Malaria represents a potentially fatal communicable illness triggered by the Plasmodium parasite. This disease is transmitted to humans through the bites of Anopheles mosquitoes that carry the infection. This disease has significant and devastating consequences on the health systems of fragile...

The blood supply chain (BSC) is a complex system with optimization challenges, whose activities impact carbon emissions and the environment, especially with regard to the disposal of expired blood bag waste. This study proposes a new mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model that considers...

We conducted a field experiment in the natural setting of blood donations to test how oxytocin relates to empathy and altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to induce different levels of empathy by showing a...

The nature of healthcare products may add to the level of complexity of their supply chain management. The vital role of efficient management of the supply chain of blood and blood products lies in its capability to facilitate the flow of blood and information along the chain in the presence of...

The nature of healthcare products may add to the level of complexity of their supply chain management. The vital role of efficient management of the supply chain of blood and blood products lies in its capability to facilitate the flow of blood and information along the chain in the presence of...

Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments at Italy's main blood donors association, testing social recognition in social media and peer groups. We experimentally disentangle visibility concerns and peer comparisons, and study how exposure to different...

The online blood donation information will be developed as part of the online blood donation management system project. The distributed client-server computing technology has been considered throughout the online Blood Donation Management System project. The purpose of the Online Blood Donation...

Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments among members of Italy's main blood donors association, testing social recognition both through social media and peer groups. We experimentally disentangle visibility concerns and peer comparisons, and we...

Platelets are critical blood products. The management of platelet inventory is particularly challenging due to its perishable nature with a short shelf-life. Motivated by a platelet inventory management problem at a two-location hospital system, we study how the wastage of platelets, and more...

Purpose - This research studies a location-allocation problem considering the m/m/m/k queue model in the blood supply chain network. This supply chain includes three levels of suppliers or donors, main blood centers (laboratories for separation, storage and distribution centers) and demand...

In 56 developing and developed countries, blood component donations by volunteer non-remunerated donors can only meet less than 50% of the demand. In these countries, blood banks rely heavily on replacement donor programs that provide blood to patients in return for donations made by their close...

In this paper, we present a multi-tiered competitive supply chain network model for the blood banking industry, with a focus on the United States, that captures the economic interactions between three tiers of stakeholders; namely, the blood service organizations, the hospitals or medical...

Although effective appeals for donors are essential for blood donation services, few studies have investigated which appeals work best, particularly for repeat donors. We address this research gap by proposing and testing a strategy that incorporates information on the use of the past donation...

There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning...

"Bad Blood meets Dreamland in this kaleidoscopic investigation into the shadowy and vampiric blood business and the dangerous limits of demand for the crucial resource that runs through our very veins. Every year, about twenty million Americans sell blood plasma for cash in a barely regulated...

Problem definition: In the blood-donor-management problem, the blood bank incentivizes donors to donate, given blood inventory levels. We propose a model to optimize such incentivization schemes under the context of random demand, blood perishability, observation period between donations, and...

"Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.Forced labour haunts...

Most countries prohibit compensation for plasma donations, and Canada continues to consider a ban. Foremost among reasons for prohibition is the worry that compensated plasma will decrease uncompensated blood donations. Using difference-in-differences analysis of data containing plasma and blood...