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Transfusion Medicine Service Transfusion Audit Procedure

Further Information Is Available By Contacting The Medical Director Of The Transfusion Medicine Service: Zbigniew.M.Szczepiorkowski, MD
  1. The Transfusion Medicine Service, in compliance with JCAHO requirements, performs an audit process to monitor the transfusion of all blood and blood components transfused at DHMC in an effort to monitor and improve clinical practice.

  2. All Patients

    All transfusions are reviewed retrospectively for conformance with good transfusion practices. When a transfusion does not appear to meet the Transfusion Committee's audit criteria, the attending staff will be contacted.

    Requests for Platelets, Plasma or Cryoprecipitate are also reviewed upon receipt. If the audit criteria are not met, the request will be turned over to a pathology resident or Pathologist for clinical consultation prior to preparation of component. Requests from the ED or OR are filled immediately but are subject to retrospective review.

Transfusion Audit Criteria

NOTE: It is important to realize that these are audit criteria, not approved indications for transfusion. They should not be construed as indicating or suggesting that transfusion should occur whenever the audit guidelines are met. They are used by the Transfusion Committee only as a tool to eliminate from consideration those transfusions that are likely to be appropriate in order to focus on those based on less well established indications.

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