Optimizing the Hospital Blood Bank Stock in Korea: a Comparative Analysis of the Uniform 5-Day Stock Index and a Novel Blood Stock Index.

Abstract

Maintaining optimal blood inventory levels in hospitals is important to prevent blood shortage and wastage. We aimed to provide an efficient blood inventory management strategy for hospital blood banks nation-wide by comparing the current use of 5-day issuable stock (IS) with Lim's IS as a novel target IS.