Abstract
As early as 1963, the importance of errors in blood banking was recognized by Schmidt (1). In a study of 5806 units of blood transfused at his hospital, he noted an error rate of 1 in 100 transfusions. Subsequently, a remarkably varying range of errors has been reported. Iir 1966, Kwa (2) reported only 1 error in 2000 transfusions. In contrast, Lacerte (3) reported an error rate of 1 in 3. In 1973, in our earliest study (4) of over 62,000 units transfused at the Mayo Clinic, we found an error rate of 1 in 500 units. Because these reports of widely varying error rates were all retrospective studies of errors which happened to have come to the attention of the management of the blood bank, it is difficult to evaluate their accuracy.
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Taswell, H.F., Sonnenberg, C.L. (1984). Error Analysis: Types of Errors in the Blood Bank. In: Sibinga, C.T.S., Das, P.C., Taswell, H.F. (eds) Quality Assurance in Blood Banking and Its Clinical Impact. Developments in Hematology and Immunology, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2835-3_21
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