Journal article
Electronic patient identification for sample labeling reduces wrong blood in tube errors
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Wrong blood in tube (WBIT) errors are a preventable cause of ABO-mismatched RBC transfusions. Electronic patient identification systems (e.g., scanning a patient's wristband barcode before pretransfusion sample collection) are thought to reduce WBIT errors, but the effectiveness of these systems is unclear.
STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Part 1: Using retrospective data, we compared pretransfusion sample WBIT rates at hospitals using …
Authors
Kaufman RM; Dinh A; Cohn CS; Fung MK; Gorlin J; Melanson S; Murphy MF; Ziman A; Elahie AL; Chasse D
Journal
Transfusion, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 972–980
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
March 2019
DOI
10.1111/trf.15102
ISSN
0041-1132