A Programmatic Approach to Patient Blood Management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes
In July 2008, the Western Australia (WA) Department of Health embarked on a landmark 5-year project to implement a sustainable comprehensive health-system-wide Patient Blood Management Program. Fundamentally, it was a quality and safety initiative, which also had profound resource and economic impli...
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| author | Farmer, Shannon Trentino, K. Hofmann, Axel Semmens, James Mukhtar, Syed Aqif Prosser, G. Hamdorf, J. Rao, S. Leahy, M. |
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| description | In July 2008, the Western Australia (WA) Department of Health embarked on a landmark 5-year project to implement a sustainable comprehensive health-system-wide Patient Blood Management Program. Fundamentally, it was a quality and safety initiative, which also had profound resource and economic implications. Unsustainable escalating direct and indirect costs of blood, potentially severe blood shortages due to changing population dynamics, donor deferrals, loss of altruism, wide variations in transfusion practice and growing knowledge of transfusion limitations and adverse outcomes necessitate a paradigm shift in the management of anemia and blood loss. The concept of patient-focused blood management is proving to be an effective force for change. This approach has now evolved to embrace comprehensive hospital-wide Patient Blood Management Programs. These programs show significant reductions in blood utilisation, reduced costs while achieving similar or improved patient outcomes. The WA Program is achieving these outcomes across a health jurisdiction in a sustained manner. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-157342017-09-13T16:00:44Z A Programmatic Approach to Patient Blood Management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes Farmer, Shannon Trentino, K. Hofmann, Axel Semmens, James Mukhtar, Syed Aqif Prosser, G. Hamdorf, J. Rao, S. Leahy, M. blood loss blood transfusion bloodless surgery practice change Anemia blood conservation patient blood management In July 2008, the Western Australia (WA) Department of Health embarked on a landmark 5-year project to implement a sustainable comprehensive health-system-wide Patient Blood Management Program. Fundamentally, it was a quality and safety initiative, which also had profound resource and economic implications. Unsustainable escalating direct and indirect costs of blood, potentially severe blood shortages due to changing population dynamics, donor deferrals, loss of altruism, wide variations in transfusion practice and growing knowledge of transfusion limitations and adverse outcomes necessitate a paradigm shift in the management of anemia and blood loss. The concept of patient-focused blood management is proving to be an effective force for change. This approach has now evolved to embrace comprehensive hospital-wide Patient Blood Management Programs. These programs show significant reductions in blood utilisation, reduced costs while achieving similar or improved patient outcomes. The WA Program is achieving these outcomes across a health jurisdiction in a sustained manner. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15734 10.2174/1874321801509010006 Bentham Science fulltext |
| spellingShingle | blood loss blood transfusion bloodless surgery practice change Anemia blood conservation patient blood management Farmer, Shannon Trentino, K. Hofmann, Axel Semmens, James Mukhtar, Syed Aqif Prosser, G. Hamdorf, J. Rao, S. Leahy, M. A Programmatic Approach to Patient Blood Management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes |
| title | A Programmatic Approach to Patient Blood Management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes |
| title_full | A Programmatic Approach to Patient Blood Management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes |
| title_fullStr | A Programmatic Approach to Patient Blood Management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Programmatic Approach to Patient Blood Management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes |
| title_short | A Programmatic Approach to Patient Blood Management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes |
| title_sort | programmatic approach to patient blood management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes |
| topic | blood loss blood transfusion bloodless surgery practice change Anemia blood conservation patient blood management |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15734 |