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SUMMARY:Jas Dhahan (SFU)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/SFUOR/52/">S
 imulation modelling to inform group O negative red blood cell inventory ma
 nagement in British Columbia</a>\nby Jas Dhahan (SFU) as part of PIMS-CORD
 S SFU Operations Research Seminar\n\nLecture held in ASB 10908.\n\nAbstrac
 t\nBlood is a crucial life-saving product in healthcare systems. Red blood
  cells are perishable\, and managing these stocks in British Columbia and 
 other regions of Canada\, with remote / rural hospitals is challenging. De
 mand must be satisfied without wasting this resource. Group O negative red
  blood cells are a precious resource because they can be donated universal
 ly. O negative individuals comprise 6-7% of our general population\, yet O
  negative demand exceeds 12% of transfusions. There is growing concern ove
 r the sustainability of the O negative supply. The appropriate management 
 of even a single red blood cell unit has the potential to save a life. \n\
 nThere are seven health authorities in British Columbia with over 80 hospi
 tals that manage their own blood inventory. British Columbia is a complex 
 jurisdiction\, which operates a provincial redistribution program\, where 
 red blood cells near expiry are sent from smaller to larger sites for use 
 before expiring to minimize wastage.\n\nIn this talk\, we discuss our ongo
 ing collaboration with the Provincial Blood Coordination Office in British
  Columbia and Canadian Blood Services to inform red blood cell inventory m
 anagement. We capture the key characteristics of a redistribution network 
 of hospital blood banks using a stochastic queue network model. Our model 
 is calibrated to and validated against real-world data from the Transparen
 t Blood Inventory Database. This work is funded by NSERC and the Canadian 
 Blood Services Blood Efficiency Accelerator Program.\n
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