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Audit in transfusion practice
Author(s) -
Joshi Girish P.,
Landers Dennis F.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2753.1998.00010.x
Subject(s) - audit , medicine , blood transfusion , blood product , quality assurance , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , medical audit , operations management , business , surgery , accounting , engineering , external quality assessment , pathology
Given the growing concern for the safety, cost and adequacy of blood supply, there is an increasing need for appropriate blood product utilization. Despite a number of consensus guidelines for the transfusion of allogeneic blood products, inappropriate blood transfusion continues. We discuss the quality assurance process for improvement in transfusion therapy including audit of blood transfusion. Audits identify areas of problems in transfusion practice which can be corrected by education of doctors, formulation of practice guidelines and algorithms. To improve the effectiveness of the audit programmes, the frequency of audits has to be maintained and there should be continual reinforcement of policies.