title: Work process redesign for blood banks and transfusion services.
abstract: Blood banks and transfusion services generally have been slower than other clinical laboratory areas to look into redesigning their work processes. Work process redesign (WPR) provides a tool for facilities to critically review their current work processes for improvement opportunities. This article provides blood banks and transfusion services with a redesign road map and the experiences of a large, metropolitan transfusion service in undertaking a WPR project.
authors.affiliation: Ortho Diagnostic Systems Inc., Raritan, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: South
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D017056:Medical Laboratory Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010865:Pilot Projects; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013714:Tennessee; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce; D017132:Workplace