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A 'comprehensive meta-analysis on what science led to 42 day storage'......there are a number of researchers at the FDA and the NIH who'd be very happy to help you with your project. If this is the route you take, I'd be glad to put you in touch with a few journal editors so you could publish your work.
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Is it possible these companies simply want out of this line of business without 'quiting?'
One way for a company to bow out without the ugliness of quiting (and news headlines to match) is to price themselves, purposefully, out of the market (more tasteful to news papers than just quiting for no apparent reason).
You have to ask if the blood banking product lines for these companies are as profitable as other non blood banking product lines (must include parent corporation in this question - the smaller blood banking company within the larger corp can always be shuttered).
Only the corporate leaders of these companies knows what's really on their strategic agenda.
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Inova of Northern Virginia (my moonlighting Med Tech job) uses the Cerner system. Complaints are few, but most folks there have a relatively low expectation of the systems that Inova purchases.
Rich
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Would a randomized 'controlled' prospective clinical study be feasible, or even allowed by an IRB or the Office of Human Research Protections?
In reality, the study would simply be massive in order to represent enough clinical patient types, patient age (and other socio-economical) demographics, and stages of blood storage age (perhaps by week, number 1 through 6), among other dependent and independent variables, so proper conclusions could be drawn. My expertise isn't in study design, but I know if you do this study properly, it would be exquisitely expensive in time and money - not to mention the patient approvals - would you sign for yourself or your wife, son, daughter to possibly be the test subject who receives several units of 6 week old blood? I'm not being coy, maybe you would, but lack of participation would dampen the mood of a study very fast. Think about the analogy of participating in a 'taste test study' to determine the proper expiration date of milk. Most people wouldn't sign up to blindly taste milk that could be 2 days old, or perhaps 6 weeks old! Yuck......(it's just an analogy). The science behind expired milk and expired blood isn't the same, but it is quite plausible the average customer views them the same (they are both perishable).
Someone mentioned to me the other day the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is considering a grant for a study along these lines.