Quality Systems for Transfusion Services

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Created 1 Dec. 2005 | Last updated: 15 May 2009

TraQ clearinghouse for the latest (mainly 2005) literature and news about quality system issues for transfusion services.

 Also see Quality Systems Education & Training

Other literature clearinghouses:
Adverse events | Economics | Pretransfusion | Technology | TM in developing countries

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Blumberg N. The costs and consequences of management fads and politically driven regulatory oversight. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1999 Jul;123(7):580–4.

Denesiuk L, Richardson T, Nahirniak N, Clarke G. Implementation of a redistribution system for near-outdate red blood cell units. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2006;130(8): 1178–83.

Ho DK. Experience of implementing a quality management system in an Ontario hospital laboratory. Clin Leadersh Manag Rev 2005 Nov 29; 19(6):E3.

Palo R, Ali-Melkkilä T, Hanhela R, Jäntti V, Krusius T, Leppänen E, et al. Development of permanent national register of blood component use utilizing electronic hospital information systems. Vox Sang 2006; 91(2):140–7.

Pereira A. Blood inventory management in the type and screen era. Vox Sang 2005;89(4) :245-50.

Rock G, Neurath D, Laurin M, Luke B, Taylor R, Bormanis J, Olberg B. Development of a total quality system for transfusion medicine services in Ontario hospitals. Transfus Apher Sci 2005 Nov;33(3):333-42. Epub 2005 Oct. 18.

Schmidt-Hieber M, Schuster R, Nogai A, Thiel E, Hopfenmuller W, Notter M. Error management of emergency transfusions: A surveillance system to detect safety risks in day to day practice. Transfus Apher Sci 2006 Oct 11; [Epub ahead of print]

Smit-Sibinga CT. Total quality management in blood transfusion. Vox Sang 2000;78 Suppl 2:281–6.

Smith DM Jr, Otter J. Performance improvement in a hospital transfusion service. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1999 Jul;123(7):585–91.

Valenstein PN, Raab SS, Walsh MK. Identification errors involving clinical laboratories: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of patient and specimen identification errors at 120 institutions. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2006;130(8): 1106–13.

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