The Australian Blood Matters has developed audit tools and facilitated many audits addressing topical issues, including audits of blood use, acute transfusion reaction management, consent for blood transfusion, policy, procedure and administrative practices, and anaemia assessment.
The National Comparative Audit of Blood Transfusion (NCABT) is a programme of clinical audits which looks at the use and administration of blood and blood components in NHS and independent hospitals in England. We also invite participation from our sister blood services in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The Blood Matters Program is a Victorian Government program run in collaboration with the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood (formerly Blood Service) that aims to support and enhance best practice in patient blood management (PBM), and the stewardship of blood and blood products, for improved patient outcomes in Victorian health services.
TRIP stands for “Transfusion and Transplantation Reactions in Patients”. Our mission is to receive and analyse reports of adverse reactions and adverse events associated with blood transfusion or with the application of human tissues or cells. TRIP also promotes hemovigilance and biovigilance in the widest sense, throughout the chain from donor to recipient, in order to contribute to improved safety of transfusion and transplantation in The Netherlands.
The Blood Matters Serious Transfusion Incidents Reporting (STIR, from Victoria, Australia) system aims to provide information to health services to improve recognition and management of transfusion risks.
Interactive session Audit and Data for Change - recorded at the ISBT In Focus 2021
This session was part of the ISBT In Focus virtual congress in June, 2021.
The session was aimed to explore a scenario of audit, data collection, analysis and reporting to support change management related to anaemia assessment in the surgical setting.
Participants learned how audit and data can be used to plan and implement change to improve blood management practice, gained knowledge about the freely available international resources to assist with audit, data collection and the significant role the TP can play in this.
Organizers: Linley Bielby / Rachel Moss
Speaker/moderator: Jana van den Broeck
This interview was recorded on June 6, 2018 at the 35th International Congress of the ISBT in Toronto, Canada.
