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Developing performance measures for patient blood management
Author(s) -
Gammon Harriet M.,
Waters Jonathan H.,
Watt Ann,
Loeb Jerod M.,
DoniniLenhoff Alessandra
Publication year - 2011
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.1537-2995.2011.03406.x
Subject(s) - medicine , blood management , documentation , measure (data warehouse) , blood transfusion , anemia , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , surgery , computer science , database , programming language
In 2005, The Joint Commission set about assessing the need for performance measures associated with the provision of blood products. Through a rigorous process, seven patient blood management performance measures were created. These measures incorporated a measure requiring transfusion consent; three measures requiring the combination of a laboratory value and a rationale for transfusion of plasma, platelets, or red blood cells; a measure requiring standard documentation about a transfusion; a measure evaluating preoperative anemia screening; and a measure of preoperative type screening and antibody testing before the start of major blood loss surgery. This article describes the process of this measure development and summarizes the final measures and some of the evidence supporting the measures.