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A Positive Donor‐Recipient Identification System for a Regional Blood Transfusion Service
Author(s) -
Chambers R. W.,
Rubin M. I.,
Rath C. E.,
Sandler S. G.,
Ball J. H.
Publication year - 1973
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.1537-2995.1973.tb05434.x
Subject(s) - vacutainer , identification (biology) , medicine , unit (ring theory) , service (business) , medical emergency , surgery , biology , business , psychology , botany , marketing , mathematics education
A positive donor recipient identification system for a transfusion service has been developed. Donor and recipient identification are established by a human and machine readable number. The recipient ID system utilizes the standard hospital ID bracelet and a series of numerical thermal encoding transfer devices for vacutainer tubes and donor unit ID bag tags. The donor identity is maintained by prenumbered vacutainer pilot tubes and a separate donor unit bag tag.