Home Delivery: Transfusion Services When and Where They Are Needed

Shaw, Briony; Wood, Erica M.; Callum, Jeannie; McQuilten, Zoe

doi:10.1016/j.tmrv.2022.06.003

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“…Recent publications evaluating home transfusions show that this procedure is feasible and associated with low rates of side effects [20,21]. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a growing interest in administrating transfusions out of the hospital, motivating haematologists to change their transfusion practice and develop home transfusion services [22,23].…”

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“…Recent publications evaluating home transfusions show that this procedure is feasible and associated with low rates of side effects [20, 21]. The COVID‐19 pandemic has created a growing interest in administrating transfusions out of the hospital, motivating haematologists to change their transfusion practice and develop home transfusion services [22, 23]. Nevertheless, our data show that this may not necessarily reflect the preferences and wishes of many patients and that the demographics, social and psychological needs of haematology patients should be taken into account when planning future reforms, along with patients' education and reassuring programmes.…”

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Haematological patients' perception of home transfusions: Effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic

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Background and Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a growing interest in hospital-at-home programmes, including home transfusion services. We studied whether the pandemic had influenced patients' perception of home transfusions. Materials and Methods:We conducted a survey among haematology patients who receive transfusions in the hospital day care facility. Patients were asked about the burden of day care transfusions and whether they would prefer receiving home transfusions. The survey was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the results were compared with a survey performed before the pandemic (baseline).Results: Sixty patients were included in the COVID-19 cohort and 31 patients in the baseline cohort. There was a non-significant decrease in the proportion of patients willing to receive home transfusions during the pandemic compared with baseline (35% vs. 47%, respectively, p = 0.28). More patients in the COVID-19 cohort were afraid to receive home transfusions (60% compared with 48% at baseline, p = 0.29), and fewer patients believed that hospital transfusion impaired their quality of life (19% compared with 36% at baseline, p = 0.09). These unexpected results may be partly attributed to the shorter time needed to arrive at the hospital during the pandemic and a greater fear of having transfusion-related adverse effects at home. Conclusions:Our results show that the pandemic did not increase the willingness of patients to receive home transfusions, with a non-significant drift towards refusal of home transfusions. Patients' opinions should be taken into consideration when planning for future home transfusion services, by creating a comprehensive approach to patients' needs.

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Haematological patients' perception of home transfusions: Effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic

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“…Ana Peláez Bejarano et al [19] applied the home delivery service in a hospital pharmacy department during the COVID-19 pandemic. Briony Shaw et al [20] considered the idea of transitioning to hospitals in the home using home delivery. Snežana Tadić and Miloš Veljović [21] described the advantages, disadvantages, interdependence, and applicability of different delivery models in changing circumstances.…”

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An Optimization of Home Delivery Services in a Stochastic Modeling with Self and Compulsory Vacation Interruption

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This study presents and discusses the home delivery services in stochastic queuing-inventory modeling (SQIM). This system consists of two servers: one server manages the inventory sales processes, and the other server provides home delivery services at the doorstep of customers. Based on the Bernoulli schedule, a customer served by the first server may opt for a home delivery service. If any customer chooses the home delivery option, he hands over the purchased item for home delivery and leaves the system immediately. Otherwise, he carries the purchased item and leaves the system. When the delivery server returns to the system after the last home delivery service and finds that there are no items available for delivery, he goes on vacation. Such a vacation of a delivery server is to be interrupted compulsorily or voluntarily, according to the prefixed threshold level. The replenishment process is executed due to the (s,Q) reordering policy. The unique solution of the stationary probability vector to the finite generator matrix is found using recursive substitution and the normalizing condition. The necessary and sufficient system performance measures and the expected total cost of the system are computed. The optimal expected total cost is obtained numerically for all the parameters and shown graphically. The influence of parameters on the expected number of items that need to be delivered, the probability that the delivery server is busy, and the expected rate at which the delivery server’s self and compulsory vacation interruptions are also discussed.

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Home Delivery: Transfusion Services When and Where They Are Needed

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Haematological patients' perception of home transfusions: Effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic

Haematological patients' perception of home transfusions: Effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic

An Optimization of Home Delivery Services in a Stochastic Modeling with Self and Compulsory Vacation Interruption

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