title: Control of blood utilization.
abstract: Blood utilization may be viewed as the response to any one of three questions. How much blood is transfused? Who are recipients? Why did the physician prescribe the blood products? Considerable data exists to answer the first question, and some data exists regarding the second. However, answering the third question is the real key to the control of blood utilization.
authors: Transfusion Services, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. jsweeney@lifespan.org
authors: Joseph D
authors: JD
authors: Sweeney
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D055656:Prescriptions; D065227:Transfusion Reaction