A study on blood product usage and wastage at the public hospital, Guyana

BACKGROUND: Blood is a valuable resource and blood wastage in a low socio economic country could impose a very serious impact on healthcare. This study therefore analyzes the usage and wastage of blood and blood products at the Georgetown Public Hospital Cooperation (GPHC), Guyana. METHODS: A retros...

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Autores principales: Kurup, Rajini, Anderson, Audrey, Boston, Cecil, Burns, Lynn, George, Marian, Frank, Marana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4907253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27297566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2112-5
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Anderson, Audrey
Boston, Cecil
Burns, Lynn
George, Marian
Frank, Marana
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description BACKGROUND: Blood is a valuable resource and blood wastage in a low socio economic country could impose a very serious impact on healthcare. This study therefore analyzes the usage and wastage of blood and blood products at the Georgetown Public Hospital Cooperation (GPHC), Guyana. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted on the data retrieved from laboratory blood banking information system on usage and wastage of blood products during the years 2012–2014 at the public hospital. The data were analyzed in MS Excel and SPSS 20.0. RESULTS: A total of 16,426 units of blood were issued from National Blood Transfusion Services. During the study period the most frequently requested blood component was packed cells followed by fresh frozen plasma (FFP), platelet, cryoprecipitate (CRYO) and whole blood respectively. Data indicated that 4167 units (25 %) of blood were wasted due to various reasons at GPHC. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need for intervention through raising awareness among medical staff in reducing blood wastage.
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spelling pubmed-49072532016-06-15 A study on blood product usage and wastage at the public hospital, Guyana Kurup, Rajini Anderson, Audrey Boston, Cecil Burns, Lynn George, Marian Frank, Marana BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: Blood is a valuable resource and blood wastage in a low socio economic country could impose a very serious impact on healthcare. This study therefore analyzes the usage and wastage of blood and blood products at the Georgetown Public Hospital Cooperation (GPHC), Guyana. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted on the data retrieved from laboratory blood banking information system on usage and wastage of blood products during the years 2012–2014 at the public hospital. The data were analyzed in MS Excel and SPSS 20.0. RESULTS: A total of 16,426 units of blood were issued from National Blood Transfusion Services. During the study period the most frequently requested blood component was packed cells followed by fresh frozen plasma (FFP), platelet, cryoprecipitate (CRYO) and whole blood respectively. Data indicated that 4167 units (25 %) of blood were wasted due to various reasons at GPHC. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need for intervention through raising awareness among medical staff in reducing blood wastage. BioMed Central 2016-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4907253/ /pubmed/27297566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2112-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27297566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2112-5
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