Transfusion audit of blood products using the World Health Organization Basic Information Sheet in Qazvin, Islamic Republic of Iran

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1257-1262

  Sheikholeslami, H ^a   Kani, C ^a   Fallah Abed, P ^b   Lalooha, F ^b   Mohammadi, N ^c  

^a University of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

^b University of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASIC INFORMATION SHEET; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 78650575133     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2010.16.12.1257     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Audit measures for good practice in blood transfusion medicine. London, Royal College of Physicians Publications, 1995.
2. Cheng G et al. The effects of a self educating blood component request form and enforcements of transfusion guidelines on FFP and platelet usage. Clinical Laboratory Haematology, 1996, 18:83-87.
3. The clinical use of blood handbook. Geneva, World Health Organization, Blood Transfusion Safety, 2002. www.who.int/bloodsafety/clinical_use/en/Handbook_EN.pdf (accessed 8 August 2009).
4. Hui CH, Williams I, Davis K. Clinical audit of the use of fresh-frozen plasma and platelets in a tertiary teaching hospital and the impact of a new transfusion request form. Internal Medicine Journal, 2005, 35(5):283-288.
5. Doughty HA. The Basic Information Sheet (BIS) for transfusion. A new tool for data collection: interim report from pilot trials. In: Kalo I, ed. Development of quality systems to improve the clinical use of blood. Report on a WHO regional WORKSHOP, Groningen, the Netherlands, 29-31 October 2001. Copenhagen, World Health Organization, 2002.
6. British Committee for Standards in Haematology. Blood Transfusion Task Force, Guidelines for the use of platelet transfusions. British Journal of Haematology, 2003, 122(1):10-23.
7. British Committee for Standards in Haematology. Guidelines for the use of fresh frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate and cryosu-pernatant. British Journal of Haematology, 2004, 126(1):11-28.
8. Skodlar J et al. The use of a World Health Organization Transfusion Basic Information Sheet to evaluate transfusion practice in Croatia. Vox Sanguinis, 2005, 89:86-91.
9. Garrioch M et al. Reducing red cell transfusions by audit, education and a new guideline in a large teaching hospital. Transfusion Medicine, 2004,14:25-31.
10. Goodnough LT et al. Transfusion medicine-blood transfusion. New England Journal of Medicine, 1999, 340:438-447.
11. Juárez-Rangel E et al. Auditoría transfusional retrospectiva en el Centro Nacional de la Transfusión Sanguínea [Retrospective transfusional audit at the Centro Nacional de la Transfusión Sanguínea]. Revista de investigación clínica, 2004, 56(1):38-42.
12. Metz J et al. Appropriateness of transfusions of red cells, platelets and fresh frozen plasma: an audit in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Medical Journal of Australia, 1995, 162(11):564.
13. Silverman JA et al. The appropriateness of red blood cells transfusions in the peripartum patient. Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2004, 104(5 Pt 1):1000-1004.
14. Schofeld WN et al. Appropriateness of platelet, fresh frozen plasma and cryoprecipitate transfusion in New South Wales public hospitals. Medical Journal of Australia, 2003, 178(3):117-121.
15. Kakkar N et al. Improvement in fresh frozen plasma transfusion practice: results of an outcome audit. Transfusion Medicine, 2004, 14:231-235.
16. Luk C et al. Prospective audit of the use of fresh-frozen plasma, based on Canadian Medical Association transfusion guidelines. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2002, 166:1539-1540.
17. McClelland B. Effective use of blood components. In: Murphy MF, Pamphillon DH, eds. Practical Transfusion Medicine. Oxford, Blackwell Science, 2001.
18. Arslan O et al. Hb content-based transfusion policy successfully reduces the number of RBC units transfused. Transfusion, 2004, 44:485-488.
19. Joshi GP et al. Audit in transfusion practice. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 1998, 4:141-146.