Research Article: Time series forecasting of red blood cell demand in hematology patients using SARIMA and exponential smoothing models: a retrospective analysis in a Chinese tertiary hospital
Abstract:
Red blood cells (RBCs) infusion is very important for the treatment of hematology patients, but how to maintain a balanced state between the supply and demand of RBCs is still a major challenge.
This study aimed to explore the feasibility of seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model and exponential smoothing (ES) model in predicting the clinical demand of RBCs for hematology patients each month.
Our study collected the monthly RBCs usage data of hematology patients from January 2014 to December 2023 to establish the SARIMA model and ES model, respectively. Then, the optimal model was used to forecast the monthly usage of RBCs from January to June 2024, and we subsequently compared the data with actual values to evaluate the prediction effect of the model.
The best fitting SARIMA model was SARIMA (2,1,0)(1,1,1) 12 , whose R 2 =?0.603, MAE?=?37.092, MAPE?=?13.693, BIC?=?7.896. The best fitting ES model was Winters addition model, whose R 2 =?0.702, MAE?=?32.617, MAPE?=?12.138, BIC?=?7.485. The mean relative errors of two models were 0.085 and 0.159, respectively. The SARIMA (2,1,0)(1,1,1) 12 model performed better in prediction.
Compared with the ES model, the SARIMA model has a smaller mean relative error in predicting RBCs usage in hematology patients. DM test also verify this result. But in the future, more similar research data are needed to make research more convincing.
Introduction:
Red blood cells (RBCs) infusion is very important for the treatment of hematology patients, but how to maintain a balanced state between the supply and demand of RBCs is still a major challenge.
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