title: The role of comprehensive check at the blood bank reception on blood requisitions in detecting potential transfusion errors.
abstract: Pre-transfusion testing includes proper requisitions, compatibility testing and pre-release checks. Proper labelling of samples and blood units and accurate patient details check helps to minimize the risk of errors in transfusion. This study was aimed to identify requisition errors before compatibility testing. The study was conducted in the blood bank of a tertiary care hospital in north India over a period of 3 months. The requisitions were screened at the reception counter and inside the pre-transfusion testing laboratory for errors. This included checking the Central Registration number (C.R. No.) and name of patient on the requisition form and the sample label; appropriateness of sample container and sample label; incomplete requisitions; blood group discrepancy. Out of the 17,148 blood requisitions, 474 (2.76 %) requisition errors were detected before the compatibility testing. There were 192 (1.11 %) requisitions where the C.R. No. on the form and the sample were not tallying and in 70 (0.40 %) requisitions patient's name on the requisition form and the sample were different. Highest number of requisitions errors were observed in those received from the Emergency and Trauma services (27.38 %) followed by Medical wards (15.82 %) and the lowest number (3.16 %) of requisition errors were observed from Hematology and Oncology wards. C.R. No. error was the most common error observed in our study. Thus a careful check of the blood requisitions at the blood bank reception counter helps in identifying the potential transfusion errors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transfusion Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.affiliation: Department of Transfusion Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Sonam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumari
authors.affiliation: Department of Transfusion Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Neelam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Marwaha
authors.affiliation: Department of Transfusion Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
authors.forename: Ratti Ram
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Sharma
keywords: Blood bank reception; Blood requisition; Comprehensive check; Transfusion errors
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