A comprehensive assessment program to improve blood-administering practices using the FOCUS-PDCA model.
The authors report on a very successful way of improving blood transfusion safety by training nurses and organizing direct observational audits. However, they do not say anything about the additional […]
Emily Cooley Memorial Award. Managing change to improve transfusion safety.
An excellent discussion of the issue of how to inform the public, hospital staff and patients about the true risks of blood transfusion, and how to manage changes intended to […]
Barcode technology: its role in increasing the safety of blood transfusion.
A promising hand-held computerized identification system is described which may clearly improve blood transfusion safety by almost excluding mistransfusion. – Volker Kretschmer