Hemovigilance : an effective tool for improving transfusion safety /

• Other Authors: Vries, René R. P. de, Faber, Jean-Claude
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Subjects: Blood banks > Standards.; Blood > Transfusion > Standards.; Blood Banks > standards.; Blood Safety.; Blood Transfusion > standards.; Medicine.; Pharmacy.; MEDICAL > Pharmacology.; Electronic books.

* Hemovigilance is a "quality process" which aims to improve quality and increase safety of blood transfusion, by surveying all activities of the blood transfusion chain, from donors to recipients. Hemovigilance programmes have now been in existence for over 15 years, but many countries an...

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1. General introduction
• pt. 2. Hemovigilance of the blood transfusion chain (blood establishment and hospital)
• pt. 3. National or regional hemovigilance systems
• pt. 4. Hemovigilance at the international level
• pt. 5. Achievements
• pt. 6. Developments.