Background Red blood cell wastage occurs when blood is discarded rather than transfused,
and ineffective ordering results in unnecessary crossmatch procedures. We describe how a …

Methods: A multidisciplinary quality improvement (QI) team used QI tools to design
interventions to improve the efficiency of the ordering process for blood products. Measures …

Background Transfusion medicine is the only section of the clinical laboratory that performs
diagnostic testing and dispenses a drug (blood) on the basis of those results. However, not …

BACKGROUND The prevention of excessive allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is
an important component of patient blood management initiatives. In this investigation …

Background: Effective blood inventory management reduces outdates of blood products.
Multiple strategies have been employed to reduce the rate of red blood cell (RBC) unit …

Background-Pediatric patient blood management (PBM) programs require continuous
surveillance of errors and near misses. However, most PBM programs rely on passive …

BACKGROUND The computerized order for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion within our
electronic health record was redesigned with integrated clinical decision support (CDS) to …

Objectives To improve documentation of blood product administration by assessing the
completion status of blood transfusions. In this way, we can ensure compliance with the …

Abstract Background and Objectives Providing red blood cell (RBC) transfusion to paediatric
patients with a haemoglobin (Hb) level of< 7 g/dL is the current best practice, but it is often …

BACKGROUND Electronic decision support has been used to reduce use of red blood cell
(RBC) transfusion. With the goal of reducing transfusions, we modified our RBC orders to …