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Optimizing the Blood Transfusion Supply Chain: From Donation to Delivery
- Blood supply chain is crucial for patient survival during surgeries, trauma, childbirth, or pandemics.
- Current blood supply chains often rely on outdated systems, necessitating urgent transformation.
- Unique constraints of the blood supply chain include short shelf life, cold chain logistics, and unpredictable demand.
- Regulatory guidelines from FDA, AABB, and WHO add complexity to blood supply operations.
- Blood supply chain involves donation collection, testing, processing, storage, distribution, transfusion, and monitoring.
- Challenges include high wastage rates, emergency shortages, cold chain breaches, data fragmentation, and lack of real-time tracking.
- Improvements require central coordination, inventory best practices, policy alignment, and staff training.
- Key performance indicators to measure blood supply chain effectiveness include wastage rate, lead time, stockout rate, temperature incidents, fill rate, and transfusion error rate.
- Addressing these indicators can lead to faster decisions and operational enhancements.
- Blood transfusion supply chain management is paramount for patient care and demands proactive leadership and collaboration.
- By enhancing coordination, policies, and collaboration, hospitals and blood banks can create truly life-saving supply chains.
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