title: Errors in transfusion: causes and measures to avoid them.
abstract: Adverse events related to medical errors are common worldwide and largely unreported. However, they represent a serious problem within the health care community, resulting in avoidable loss of life and/or extremely high costs. Likewise, errors in transfusion medicine, which most frequently involve misidentification of the patient, not rarely may have life-threatening consequences. In this review, the errors related to blood transfusion are briefly summarized along with new technologies developed for improving blood safety.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Immunohematology and Transfusion Center, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy. mfranchini@ao.pr.it
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Franchini
mesh_terms: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012308:Risk Management; D065227:Transfusion Reaction
chemical_list: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System