Transfusion Medicine - Prevention of Bedside Errors

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Blood Transfusion

In brief

This study concerns the safety of blood transfusion. Prior to transfusion, staff should perform a number of essential safety checks to ensure that the correct patient is receiving the correct blood product. Evidence suggests that these safety checks are not always done. This study has been designed to assess the effect of a simple intervention on the performance of the bedside safety check. The hypothesis is that a simple intervention will improve the performance of the bedside check.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00127556

Run by

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

People needed

300

Starts

2005-04-01

Expected to finish

2005-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2008-05-09

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Crossmatched red cells

You may not qualify if…

• Uncrossmatched red cells, platelets, fresh frozen plasma

Where it is running

• LA County and USC Medical Centre — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre — Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• University Hospitals of Cleveland — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• Royal North Shore Hospital — St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
• Hospital Sirio Libanes Blood Bank — São Paulo, Brazil
• Hamilton Health Sciences — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• Sunnybrook & Women's Hospital — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Haukeland University Hospital — Bergen, Norway
• Great Ormond Street — London, United Kingdom

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