title: [Blood transfusion and supply chain management safety].
abstract: The level of safety attained in blood transfusion now makes this a discipline better managed care activities. This was achieved both by scientific advances and policy decisions regulating and supervising the activity, as well as by the quality system, which we recall that affects the entire organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes and resources in place to achieve quality management. So, an effective quality system provides a framework within which activities are established, performed in a quality-focused way and continuously monitored to improve outcomes. This system quality has to irrigate all the actors of the transfusion, just as much the establishments of blood transfusion than the health establishments.
authors.affiliation: CHU de Nice, 06001 Nice, France. Electronic address: quaranta.jf@chu-nice.fr.
authors.forename: Jean-François
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Quaranta
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang Alpes-Méditerranée, 13392 Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Cyril
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Caldani
authors.affiliation: Agence régionale de santé Île-de-France, Institut national de la transfusion sanguine, 75015 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Jacques
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cabaud
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang Auvergne-Loire, 42023 Saint-Étienne, France.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chavarin
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang Auvergne-Loire, 42023 Saint-Étienne, France.
authors.forename: Sandrine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rochette-Eribon
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D001782:Blood Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution; D058731:Blood Safety / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D046148:Donor Selection / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D065227:Transfusion Reaction