title: Provision of an out-of-hours blood banking service at a satellite hospital without blood bank staff.
abstract: With limited health care resources and financial constraints, many hospitals have to reduce their service. Computer crossmatching has been accepted as a safe crossmatching procedure for patients without clinically significant alloantibodies. We report here a novel way of providing an out-of-hours blood banking service at a satellite hospital. The system is easy to introduce and can provide a safe transfusion service to small hospitals without stationing blood banking staff at these hospitals after regular working hours.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chui
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.forename: E O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Kan
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: K O
authors.initials: KO
authors.lastname: Yee
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Yip
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Fung
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks; D001788:Blood Grouping and Crossmatching; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D003199:Computer Systems; D006723:Hong Kong; D006781:Hospitals, Satellite; D006801:Humans