STAT Type and Screen Turnaround Times (Survey)

[tkakin]

1. _{What kind of hospital are you and what size? (Community, university, teaching, etc. Small, medium, large, or number of beds, etc) Any add'l info you'd be willing to provide to give an idea of the workload would be appreciated, approx. type and screens tested, rbc units transfused, etc.}

_{2 Community hospitals about 300 beds total. Transfuse about 3300 units/year with approximately 2900 T&S/year}

_{2. What is the established turnaround time for your STAT type and screens? Do you have any location specific criteria?}

 _{60 minutes from collection to completion. No location criteria}

_{3. What are the parameters for your turnaround time? (i.e. receipt to verify, collect to verify, is the specimen received by your department or a centralized specimen processing area? is the specimen received already spun or do you spin them upon receipt?)}

 _{Specimen processing receives the specimen and it is spun in the Blood Bank}

_{4. What is the primary method for your Type and Screen testing?}

 _{Manual Gel}

_{5. Do you monitor your turnaround time as a quality indicator and with what regularity? If so, do you think this is an appropriate quality indicator? How do you report this information? (e.g. do you report a time at a particular percentile, do you report the percentage of specimens that met a particular turnaround time?)}

_{No, but it is on my list.}