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RBC Inventory-Management System Based on XGBoost Model

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It is difficult to predict RBC consumption accurately. This paper aims to use big data to establish a XGBoost Model to understand the trend of RBC accurately, and forecast the demand in time. XGBoost, which implements machine learning algorithms under the Gradient Boosting framework can provide a parallel tree boosting. The daily RBC usage and inventory (May 2014–September 2017) were investigated, and rules for RBC usage were analysed. All data were divided into training sets and testing sets. A XGBoost Model was established to predict the future RBC demand for durations ranging from a day to a week. In addition, the alert range was added to the predicted value to ensure RBC demand of emergency patients and surgical accidents. The gap between RBC usage and inventory was fluctuant, and had no obvious rule. The maximum residual inventory of a certain blood group was up to 700 units one day, while the minimum was nearly 0 units. Upon comparing MAE (mean absolute error):A:10.69, B:11.19, O:10.93, and AB:5.91, respectively, the XGBoost Model was found to have a predictive advantage over other state-of-the-art approaches. It showed the model could fit the trend of daily RBC usage. An alert range could manage the demand of emergency patients or surgical accidents. The model had been built to predict RBC demand, and the alert range of RBC inventory is designed to increase the safety of inventory management.

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This work was supported by Medical big data research and development project of PLA general hospital (2016MBD-023).

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  1. Department of Blood Transfusion, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28, Fuxing Rd, Beijing, 100853, China

    Xiaolin Sun, Yannan Feng, Deqing Wang & Yang Yu

  2. HealSci Technology Co., Ltd, 1606, Tower5, 2 Rong Hua South Road, BDA, Beijing, 100176, China

    Zhenhua Xu, Qingqing Yang & Yan Xie

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Conceived and designed the experiment: DQW, YY Analysed the data and wrote the paper: XLS, ZHX Managed the data collection: QQY, YNF, YX.

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Sun, X., Xu, Z., Feng, Y. et al. RBC Inventory-Management System Based on XGBoost Model. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus 37, 126–133 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12288-020-01333-5

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