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Calculation of blood shortage at a centre


angie

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How does one collect data for blood shortage at a hospital blood centre?

 

Would you include the no. of blood requests  deferred /

no. of patients issued blood after switching groups or type,/

patients issued blood after having to borrow blood from another blood centre ? 

 

Would you consider the the number of patients or the number of units for calculation of shortage of blood on any particular day?

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I kept track of the number of units of a particular type and the ability of my blood supplier to accommodate the order.  Say I was ordering O Negs.  I wanted 4, they said they could only give me 2.  When I said ok they changed my request to 2u instead of the 4 I wanted.  Needless to say they were surprised when they rec'd my QA of their ability to meet my needs over the course of a year.

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Thanks for the response David. Shortage rate would be a performance indicator for a blood centre but is there any guidelines regarding the measurement? If a patient is given compatible but non group specific blood would that count as shortage? If a hospital blood bank is able to outsource a particular required group and provide it for an elective surgery would that count towards shortage? We have a predominantly decentralized hospital based bloodbanking system in our country hence each blood bank is involved in collecting, processing and issuing blood.

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