1. The Impact of an Electronic Ordering System on Blood Bank Specimen Rejection Rates
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Maryam Shirazi, Charlotte Wu-Gall, Brie A. Stotler, and Stefanie Forest
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Blood transfusion ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,ABO blood group system ,medicine ,Humans ,Blood type ,Electronic Data Processing ,Medical Errors ,biology ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Wrong blood in tube ,Surgery ,Blood Grouping and Crossmatching ,Blood Group Incompatibility ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Anesthesia ,biology.protein ,Blood Banks ,Antibody ,business ,Blood bank - Abstract
To evaluate the impact that an electronic ordering system has on the rate of rejection of blood type and screen testing samples and the impact on the number of ABO blood-type discrepancies over a 4-year period.An electronic ordering system was implemented in May 2011. Rejection rates along with reasons for rejection were tracked between January 2010 and December 2013.A total of 40,104 blood samples were received during this period, of which 706 (1.8%) were rejected for the following reasons: 382 (54.0%) unsigned samples, 235 (33.0%) mislabeled samples, 57 (8.0%) unsigned requisitions, 18 (2.5%) incorrect tubes, and 14 (1.9%) ABO discrepancies. Of the samples, 2.5% were rejected in the year prior to implementing the electronic ordering system compared with 1.2% in the year following implementation ( P .0001).Our data demonstrate that implementation of an electronic ordering system significantly decreased the rate of blood sample rejection.
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- 2017