Allocating Blood to Hospitals
提出一种方法，根据医院特征（如输血活动、需求）和区域血液中心政策，将血液单位分配给医院，问题转化为线性规划，适用于英国等国家卫生服务体系。
A method is proposed for the allocation of units of blood from a regional blood transfusion centre to the hospitals of its area, taking into consideration the characteristics of the individual hospitals, such as the transfusion activity, the demand of each hospital and the regional blood transfusion service policy concerning the allocation of units of blood expressed through a utility function. The problem is formulated as a stochastic programming problem but reduces to a linear programming problem and therefore is easily applicable. The method is suitable for application in systems with a National Health Service system, such as the British. Finally the results are given of an application to the despatches of units of blood in the Regional Blood Transfusion Service of Glasgow and West of Scotland.