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Design and Planning of Organ Transplantation Networks

In: Operations Research Applications in Health Care Management

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  • Sahar Ahmadvand

    (Iran University of Science and Technology)

  • Mir Saman Pishvaee

    (Iran University of Science and Technology)

Abstract

Organ transplantation is one of the most successful therapy methods for many fatal diseases. As the demand for organs exceeds the supply, donated organs are considered as important and scarce national resources. Hence, planning for organ transplantation network in different levels including strategic, tactical and operational is an attractive and controversial research area with significant practical relevance. Strategic planning for organ transplantation network deals with long-term decisions (e.g., Transplant Center (TC) and Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) location problems and regional configuration design problem), while tactical/operational planning associates with the procurement of organs and short-term decisions (e.g., organ allocation and transportation of organs, patients and medical staff). Organ transplantation network planning is constrained by specific limitations due to the perishability of organs and emergent nature of transplantation activity which differentiate it from regular supply chains. This chapter aims to introduce and discuss the recent developments in organ transplantation network planning as well as presenting relevant case studies. In particular, this chapter focuses on mathematical programming and computational models proposed in the recent literature for organ transplantation network planning. Moreover, a systematic classification of the relevant literature as well as a number of attractive future research directions are provided for interested readers.

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  • Sahar Ahmadvand & Mir Saman Pishvaee, 2018. "Design and Planning of Organ Transplantation Networks," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Cengiz Kahraman & Y. Ilker Topcu (ed.), Operations Research Applications in Health Care Management, chapter 0, pages 211-240, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-65455-3_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65455-3_9
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