An Analysis of Blood Component Wastage in the Ajou University Hospital
An Analysis of Blood Component Wastage in the Ajou University Hospital
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亚洲大学医院血液成分浪费分析
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2002
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Y. Lim
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Y. Lim
Backgroud : The blood component wastage leads to an unnecessary expensive cost of operation, and thus we have monitored the reasons for such wastage and have taken corrective actions to reduce the amount of discarded blood. Methods : To evaluate the effectiveness of the corrective actions for blood wastage, rates and reasons for blood wastage were compared during the monitoring period of 78 months and the pre-monitoring period of 6 months. Results : The wastage rates of total blood components, red blood cells (RBC), platelet concentrates (PC) and fresh frozen plasmas (FFP) for the pre-monitoring were 1.23%, 1.31%, 0.59% and 2.19%, and for the monitoring period 0.4%, 0.15%, 0.19% and 1.4%, respectively. These differences were statistically significant (p