Quality Assurance in Blood Banking and Its Clinical Impact - Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen 1982, organized by the Red Cross Blood Bank Groningen-Drenthe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)

THE PHILOSOPHY OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN THE BLOOD BANK H. F. Taswell One year before this symposium, Cees Smit Sibinga and I began to discuss an approach to quality assurance in the blood bank which we felt would be both important and practical and could serve as the basis for the choice of subjects to be presented in the symposium. As an introduction to this book, I would like to outline our approach, the subjects chosen and the rationale behind our choice. What is the fundamental purpose of a blood bank and trans fusion service? Simply stated, the purpose of a blood bank and transfusion service and of a quality assurance program in blood banking is, for the one to provide and, the other to assure safe and effective transfusion therapy. This objective is in contrast to that of other clinical laboratories. The objective in a clinical chemistry laboratory is to produce accurate test results which will be meaningful to the clinician taking care of his patient. In most clinical laboratories, therefore, the goals of a quality assurance program are largely quantitative, that is, to assure accurate numerical test results. In contrast, in the blood bank, the goals of quality assurance are primarily qualitative, that is, to assure safe and effective transfusion. As a result, two somewhat different approaches to quality assurance are necessary.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Developments in Hematology and Immunology, 7
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	1984
Editors:	C.Th.Smit Sibinga • P.C. Das • H.F. Taswell
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	250
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
ISBN-13:	978-1-4612-9791-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Haematology
LSN:	1-4612-9791-5
Barcode:	9781461297918

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