Prastacos, Gregory P.; Brodheim, Eric - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 5, pp. 451-463
Human blood is a perishable product: in the U.S. it has a legal lifetime of 21 days from collection, during which it can be used for transfusion to a patient of the same type, and after which it has to be discarded. It is collected in units of one pint from volunteer donors at various collection...