Scientists at John Radcliffe Hospital discuss research in transfusion medicine

Fresh data on transfusion medicine are presented in the report "Prevention of bedside errors in transfusion medicine (PROBE-TM) study: a cluster-randomized, matched-paired clinical areas trial of a simple intervention to reduce errors in the pretransfusion bedside check." According to recent research from Oxford, the United Kingdom, "Transfusion of the incorrect blood component is a frequent serious incident associated with transfusion and often involves misidentification of the patient and/or the unit of blood. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a simple intervention designed to improve performance of the bedside check and to observe the durability of any...

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