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Passaic Valley Blood Program
Author(s) -
Churg J.,
Steinlauf P.,
Brill R.,
Gan J. R.,
Ellis A. S.,
Sobel H. J.,
Weiss I.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1111/j.1537-2995.1971.tb04384.x
Subject(s) - blood bank , procurement , medicine , purchasing , volunteer , emergency medicine , surgery , operations management , business , engineering , biology , agronomy , marketing
A procurement program is described which is designed to provide blood from volunteer donors for about 10,000 transfusions (10,000 pints) a year. The program consists of: (1) pre‐admission deposit of blood in the hospital banks by relatives and friends of patients; (2) efficient exchange of blood among the seven participating hospitals; (3) formation of blood‐assurance groups in the community. During its six years of operation, the program has almost completely eliminated the purchasing of commercial blood; it has reduced by half, out‐dating of blood in the banks; and it has doubled the amount of blood supplied by the assurance groups.