Using Interactive Visual Analytics to Optimize Blood Products Inventory at a Blood Bank

Blood products and their derivatives are perishable commodities that require an efficient inventory management to ensure both a low wastage rate and a high product availability rate. To optimize blood product inventory, Blood Transfusion Services (BTS) need to reduce wastage by avoiding outdates and improving availability of different blood products. We took a blood product lifecycle approach and used advanced visualization techniques to design and develop a highly interactive web-based dashboard to audit retrospective data and consequently, to identify and learn from procedural inefficiencies based on analysis of transactional data. We present pertinent scenarios to show how the blood transfusion staff can use the dashboard to investigate blood product lifecycles so as to probe transition sequence patterns that led to wastage as a means to discover causes of procedural inefficiencies in the BTS.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:290

Enthalten in:

Studies in health technology and informatics - 290(2022) vom: 06. Juni, Seite 572-576

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rad, Jaber [VerfasserIn]
Quinn, Jason G [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Calvino [VerfasserIn]
Liwski, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Abidi, Samina [VerfasserIn]
Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Blood Transfusion
Data Visualization
Hospital
Inventories
Journal Article

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Date Completed 09.06.2022

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3233/SHTI220142

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM341948829