Journal article
Prevention of bedside errors in transfusion medicine (PROBE‐TM) study: a cluster‐randomized, matched‐paired clinical areas trial of a simple intervention to reduce errors in the pretransfusion bedside check
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Transfusion of the incorrect blood component is a frequent serious incident associated with transfusion and often involves misidentification of the patient and/or the unit of blood. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a simple intervention designed to improve performance of the bedside check and to observe the durability of any effect. The intervention was a tag on blood bags reminding staff to check the …
Authors
Murphy MF; Casbard AC; Ballard S; Shulman IA; Heddle N; Aubuchon JP; Wendel S; Thomson A; Hervig T; Downes K
Journal
Transfusion, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 771–780
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
May 2007
DOI
10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01189.x
ISSN
0041-1132