The eastern province blood transfusion service: A case study
An analysis was made of the location of the nine blood banks in the Eastern Province Blood Transfusion Service. The banks were considered as the vertices of an undirected graph. The cost of collecting and distributing blood was assumed to be proportional to the distances between vertices, and to the...
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2003-12-01
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| author | G. Geldenhuys PduT Fourie J. Le Roux |
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| description | An analysis was made of the location of the nine blood banks in the Eastern Province Blood Transfusion Service. The banks were considered as the vertices of an undirected graph. The cost of collecting and distributing blood was assumed to be proportional to the distances between vertices, and to the population of each district. The 9-median of the graph was calculated and the corresponding cost compared with the cost of the actual configuration, which turned out to be about 3% higher. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-474ca1cc538548a78177b870ef045ce72022-12-21T17:33:15ZengOperations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA)ORiON2224-00042003-12-014210.5784/4-2-486444The eastern province blood transfusion service: A case studyG. GeldenhuysPduT FourieJ. Le RouxAn analysis was made of the location of the nine blood banks in the Eastern Province Blood Transfusion Service. The banks were considered as the vertices of an undirected graph. The cost of collecting and distributing blood was assumed to be proportional to the distances between vertices, and to the population of each district. The 9-median of the graph was calculated and the corresponding cost compared with the cost of the actual configuration, which turned out to be about 3% higher.http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/486 |
| spellingShingle | G. Geldenhuys PduT Fourie J. Le Roux The eastern province blood transfusion service: A case study ORiON |
| title | The eastern province blood transfusion service: A case study |
| title_full | The eastern province blood transfusion service: A case study |
| title_fullStr | The eastern province blood transfusion service: A case study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The eastern province blood transfusion service: A case study |
| title_short | The eastern province blood transfusion service: A case study |
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| url | http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/486 |
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