title: [Transfusion service of the county of Funen. Organizational and economical aspects of restructuring].
abstract: The reorganization of the transfusion service in the County of Funen during the period from 1990 to 1996 is described. The professional responsibility for the transfusion service was delegated to the county's only department with specialists in transfusion medicine. The responsibility for economy and personnel remained decentralized. Standard operation procedures for collection and production of blood components and for blood group serology were standardized resulting in higher quality. The number of collections were reduced from 47,000 to 35,000 in spite of an unchanged number of transfused units (approx. 31,000 per year). The outdating was reduced from 35 to 2%. A computer system was implemented resulting in rationalized flow of work and the introduction of a computer crossmatch. From 1997, when the computer system will have been paid for, the county and the university hospital will gain DKK 1.6 million and DKK 2.0 million per year respectively as a result of the reorganization.
authors.affiliation: Odense Universitetshospital, Klinisk immunologisk afdeling.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Georgsen
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jeppesen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rasmussen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kristensen
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003201:Computers; D003718:Denmark; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Fyns amts transfusionsvaesen. Organisatoriske og økonomiske aspekter af en omstrukturering.