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Specimen Collection: Further reading

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  1. American Association of Blood Banks, Guidelines for the Labeling of Specimens for Compatibility Testing, Bethesda, MD: AABB Press; 2002.
  2. Callum JL, Kaplan HS, Merkley LL, Pinkerton PH, Rabin Fastman B, Romans RA, et al. Reporting of near-miss events for transfusion medicine: improving transfusion safety. Transfusion 2001 Oct.;41(10):1204-11. [ Full text ] [ Medline ]
  3. CBBS e-Network Forum: Preventing pre-transfusion specimen labeling errors (Jan. 30, 2002)
  4. Cummins D, Sharp S, Vartanian M, et al. The BSCH guideline on addressograph labels: experience at a cardiothoracic unit and findings of a telephone survey. Transfus Med 2000;10:117–20. [ Medline ]
  5. Dzik WH, Murphy MF, Andreu G, Heddle N, Hogman C, Kekomaki R, Murphy S, Shimizu M, Smit-Sibinga CT; Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Working Party of the International Society for Blood Transfusion. An international study of the performance of sample collection from patients. Vox Sang. 2003 Jul;85(1):40-7. [Medline]
  6. Fact Sheet. Medical technologies are making blood supply safer than ever. Advanced medical technology Association (pdf file)
  7. Goodman C, Chan S, Collins P, Haught R, Chen Y-J. Ensuring blood safety and availability in the US: technological advances, costs, and challenges to payment final report. Transfusion 2003. 43 (8): 3S
  8. Lau FY, Wong R, Chui CH, et al. Improvement in transfusion safety using a specially designed transfusion wristband. Transfus Med 2000; 10:121–4. [ Medline ]
  9. Linden JV. Errors in transfusion medicine. scope of the problem. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1999 ;123(7): 563–5.
  10. Linden JV, Wagner K, Voytovich AE, Sheehan J. Transfusion errors in New York State: an analysis of 10 years' experience. Transfusion 2000;40(10):1207-13. [ Full text ] [ Medline ]
  11. Lumadue JA, Boyd JS, Ness PM. Adherence to a strict specimen-labeling policy decreases the incidence of erroneous blood grouping of blood bank specimens. Transfusion 1997 Nov.-Dec.; 37(11-12):1169-72. [ Medline ]
  12. McClelland DB, Phillips P. Errors in blood transfusion in Britain: survey of hospital haematology departments. BMJ. 1994 May 7;308(6938):1205-6.
  13. Mercuriali F, Inghilleri G, Colotti MT, et al. Bedside transfusion errors: analysis of 2 years' use of a system to monitor and prevent transfusion errors. Vox Sang 1996;70:16–20. [ Medline ]
  14. Myhre BA, McRuer D. Human error-a significant cause of transfusion mortality. Transfusion 2000 Jul.; 40(7):879-85. [ Full text ] [ Medline ]
  15. Williamson LM, Lowe S, Love EM, Cohen H, Soldan K, McClelland DB, et al. Serious hazards of transfusion (SHOT) initiative: analysis of the first two annual reports. Br Med J 1999; 319:16-9. [ Full text ]

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