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Automation in bloodbanking has involved a variety of approaches, ranging from blood group machine-linked computers to large centralized national systems. The different systems applied show a variety of comprehensiveness and practicability, some being restricted to stock control and issuing of blood, others to filing basic donor information to be used for call-up procedures only. In the USA the Committee for Commonality in Blood Banking Automation CCBBA (1) has made comprehensive information using a barcode principle. Whatever approach or system is used, the main goals of automation are improving safety by preventing and eliminating as optimal as possible clerical errors, thereby providing a usefull tool for assuring the quality of work within the Blood Bank. However, no success will be achieved if one does not start with the fundamental of automation: system analysis.
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Smit, Z., Smalbil, H., Sibinga, C.T.S. (1984). Administrative Procedures and a Machine-Readable System to Assure Quality Control within a 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_6
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