title: Improving the blood product ordering to administration process.
abstract: A four-pronged approach to improving the blood product delivery system resulted in a significant decrease in the number of blood products ordered STAT, increased ability of the blood bank to fulfill STAT requests in a timely manner, and a significant decrease in the number of blood products outdated and discarded.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  blood products, performance improvement
authors.affiliation: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Holly
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Reilly
authors.forename: Joann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tonon
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miransky
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000592:standards*; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000451:nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003363:Cost Control; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006750:Hospital Distribution Systems / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D009519:New York City; D017748:Time Management; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*