Errors in blood transfusion in Britain: survey of hospital haematology departments
- 7 May 1994
- Vol. 308 (6938) , 1205-1206
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.308.6938.1205
Abstract
Blood transfusion laboratories aim to provide a high quality service with minimum risk to patients. British guidelines for good practice in transfusion medicine exist,1 and most hospitals have local protocols. If these procedures fail incompatible blood may be transfused, which could lead to potentially fatal haemolytic reactions. As no system of collecting data centrally exists in Britain failures of the transfusion process are not documented. In contrast, in the United States the Food and Drug Administration requires all establishments that are registered to process blood to report all errors and deaths associated with transfusion. We aimed to investigate the incidence of recognised transfusion errors in Britain in 1990 and 1991 and the cause and clinical outcome of these errors. ### and results A short questionnaire about errors in blood transfusion procedures and …Keywords
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