2.2 Literature Studies
According to
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Teena, C.A, Sankar, K. and Kannan, S. (2014) in their study entitled
“A Study on Blood Bank Management”, they defined Blood Bank Information System as an
information management system that contributes to the management of donor records and
blood bank. Their system allowed an authorized blood bank administrator to sign in with a
password to manage easily the records of donors and patients who need blood. The system
provided many features including the central database, quick access to the system content
through the login, includes the search code to find donors on a given basis, and the ease of
adding and updating donor data. The main aim of the system was to complete0the process of
the blood bank. This system was designed to suit all types of blood banks. Once successful in
the implementation of the application, it can be applied and rolled out in several blood banks.
This application contains User Login Screen, Blood Management, Menu Form, Blood Stock,
Donor Management, Donor Registration, Blood Reservation, Donor Blood Test, Recipient
Management and Blood Reservation. In similar manner, the researchers planned in their
application to have hospital administrator, doctors, and blood bank receptionists as users. The
authors did not mentioned the research method they used, and failed to provide screenshots of
the system prototypes, making difficult for the researchers to visualize their application. No
discussion also for their respondents, samples and sampling techniques used. Subsequently, the
researchers planned to provide figures to explain the system, screenshots of system prototypes,
and other diagrams that can help other researchers to visualize the development of web-based
blood bank management system. Also, the researchers will explicitly discuss its research
methods, sampling procedures, and statistical treatment to be used for analyzing the gathered
data.
On the other hand, study entitled “Blood Bank Management System” done by
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Kumar,
R., Singh, S. and Ragavi, V.A. (2017), the researchers developed a web-based blood
management which assists the blood donor records management, and provides ease of control
in the distribution of blood products in various parts of the country considering demands of
hospitals. The developed system was scalable and adaptable to meet the complex needs usually
of a blood bank. Based on this study, since entering the details about the blood donors and
related records were done manually, thus, tracking of blood donation activities was difficult
and complicated, and even led to erroneous information. Subsequently, the researchers
mentioned that manual-based system can be waste of time, lead to the error-prone results,
consumes a lot of manpower, lacks data security, data retrieval requires a lot of time, reports