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Improving blood safety: Errors management in transfusion medicine
Author(s) -
Nevenka Bujandrić,
Jasmina Grujić,
Mirjana Krga-Milanovic
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2406-0895
pISSN - 0370-8179
DOI - 10.2298/sarh1406384b
Subject(s) - medicine , blood transfusion , adverse effect , transfusion medicine , near miss , intensive care medicine , patient safety , medical record , transfusion reaction , human error , blood management , emergency medicine , medical emergency , health care , surgery , risk analysis (engineering) , reliability engineering , economics , engineering , economic growth
The concept of blood safety includes the entire transfusion chain starting with the collection of blood from the blood donor, and ending with blood transfusion to the patient. The concept involves quality management system as the systematic monitoring of adverse reactions and incidents regarding the blood donor or patient. Monitoring of near-miss errors show the critical points in the working process and increase transfusion safety.

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