title: The UK strategy for monitoring universal leucodepletion.
abstract: This summary manuscript deals with the NBS approach to quality monitoring of universal leucodepletion based on representative sampling. There is also a brief discussion on the failure rate and potential causes for the inter site variations in white cell enumeration by current methods.
authors.affiliation: National Blood Service, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Beckman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Seghatchian
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D001781:Blood Component Removal / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D006113:United Kingdom