Hemovigilance for small hospital

[cthherbal]

We are a small(ish) hospital, 280 beds. We have been reporting transfusion reactions for a little over a year in CDC's Hemovigilance. We have about 30 transfusion reactions a year, not a tremendous amount but since I am the one reporting, it can be somewhat burdensome with my normal workload.

 

After seeing a year's worth of data I fail to see the value in this reporting. We are struggling to get legal approval for the AABB database to be able to compare ourselves nationally with more participating facilities.

 

Is it worth our while to get to this level? I am considering dropping Hemovigilance altogether.

 

What do you all think?

[OxyApos]

I'm at a smaller facility than you & I don't do this.  I only have about 12 / year and virtually all are febrile/ allergic.  Basically nothing a Type and Screen result would have prevented.  I'd drop this.  I know all of these folks out there want data for various surveys and frequency analysis but I'm doing anything I don't have to do.  Too much already for , like you, the Lone Tech.

[goodchild]

Herbal, I can't pose an answer to the worthwhile portion of your question, but we are approximately the same size as your institution and we are involved in submitting this data.

 

Our Medical director (and I) are staunch supporters of collecting data, so the more people involved submitting the better.