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Common Causes of Blood Transfusion Events in a University Hospital: Analysis of Incident Reports

NCT01812499 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 131

Last updated 2013-03-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Inhospital the blood transfusion process consists of many phases: ordering the blood product, analysis of the blood sample, delivery, transport and storage of the blood product and administration. In each of these phases (near) accidents may occur. A severe transfusion incident refers to the transfusion of a wrong blood product, whereas a near miss is detected before transfusion.

In 2010 the University Hospitals Leuven introduced a new electronic patient incident report system for transfusion events.

In this study the investigators will analyze the reported blood transfusion events to detect the most common causes of blood transfusion events and the weakest link in the blood transfusion chain.

Conditions

  • Blood Transfusion Events

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Timothy Devos, MD, PhD · Department of Hematology, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

  • Els Costermans, RN · Department of Hematology, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-02-28

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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