Blood pack fault monitoring

Beckman, Neil; Nicholson, G.; Ashford, Michael; Hambleton, R.

doi:10.1111/j.1423-0410.2004.00553.x

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“…9 Several countries have successfully applied SPC techniques to the process of leukoreduction based on guidelines proposed by BEST [10][11][12] or for monitoring faults in blood containers. 13 SPC can be used to document that a critical process is in control and to alert responsible parties when a process wanders out of control. When used over time to monitor a process, SPC can be a useful tool to demonstrate the effects of process changes or to objectively assess the effect of new interventions intended to improve blood transfusion therapy.…”

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Errors in patient specimen collection: application of statistical process control

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“…Such events are a source of frustration and minor inconvenience and can lead to unacceptable delays, wastage of blood components and injury to staff. The National Blood Service (NBS) monitors such events through its customer complaints system based on NHS good practice guidance (Department of Health, 2004) and has a system to follow up such events with the manufacturer (Beckman et al ., 2004).…”

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Improving compatibility between blood packs and transfusion sets

Nightingale¹

2005

Transfusion Medicine

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Significant variation between manufacturers exists in the force required to insert transfusion set spikes (closure-piercing device) into blood pack ports. This potential source of difficulty can impact directly on patient and staff safety (delayed transfusion, contamination of blood components, wastage, blood spillage and staff injury) and is not predicted or prevented by conformance of these medical devices to relevant International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards. A quantitative, objective measurement of insertion force is described together with an assessment of factors affecting compatibility between the port and spike. Several advantageous and disadvantageous design features are identified and are being addressed through ISO Technical Committee 76 Work Group 1.

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“…First, the term benchmarking was frequently used inappropriately with many of the articles (38/45) initially identified by the search strategy being studies that were looking at trends over time (n = 2), or single time point studies looking at practice variation or factors associated blood utilization (n = 36). There were only seven publications that were considered benchmarking [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. All seven manuscripts described a structured continuous process using comparisons to identify factors associated with differences in practice, but only four papers reported all three steps of benchmarking [4][5][6][7].…”

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“…There were only seven publications that were considered benchmarking [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. All seven manuscripts described a structured continuous process using comparisons to identify factors associated with differences in practice, but only four papers reported all three steps of benchmarking [4][5][6][7]. The subject matter of the four papers included safety (n = 2) [4,5], blood utilization (n = 1) [7] and operational issues (n = 1) [6].…”

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Benchmarking: applications to transfusion medicine

Heddle

Barty

2013

ISBT Science Series

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Benchmarking is ‘a structured, continuous, collaborative process in which comparisons for selected indicators are used to identify factors which when implemented will improve transfusion practices’. In the Transfusion Medicine literature, there are only a few published articles that meet the criteria for benchmarking: (1) using comparisons between institutions to identify practice variation; (2) using a communication and/or evaluation process to identify factors associated with best practices; (3) introduce best practice factors into one's own setting; and (4) re‐evaluate performance. Three models for benchmarking have been proposed: (1) a regional benchmarking programme that collects and links relevant data from existing electronic sources; (2) a sentinel site model where data from a limited number of sites are collected; and (3) an institutional‐initiated model where a site identifies indicators of interest and approach other institutions as comparators. Finland has the most well‐developed benchmarking model where hospital data are collected electronically from multiple sources and analysed centrally with web‐based reports available for participants. Areas of practice variation are explored in annual benchmarking workshops, interventions are identified and implemented, and the impact of the interventions are evaluated at a later date. A provincial model used in Canada will also be described showing the impact on red cell outdating when hospitals were challenged to meet evidence based targets. Limitations of benchmarking and future research will be discussed.

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Blood pack fault monitoring

Cited by 11 publications

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Errors in patient specimen collection: application of statistical process control

Errors in patient specimen collection: application of statistical process control

Improving compatibility between blood packs and transfusion sets

Benchmarking: applications to transfusion medicine

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