Assessment of the knowledge of usage of blood and blood products amongst medical doctors in the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand affiliated academic hospitals

Assessment of recipients’ characteristics, transfusion appropriateness, and utilization pattern of blood and blood products in Jimma Medical Center, Jimma, Ethiopia

“…supported by evidence through continuous review and evaluations of demographic characteristics, clinical conditions of transfusion recipients, and appropriate clinical utilization of blood and blood products [6,23]. Blood is essentially a scarce resource and also transfusion poses a potential danger to recipients [7,9,11,15]; thus, these two vital points in transfusion medicine requires appropriate measures need to be considered in potential avoiding of unnecessary blood transfusions by following appropriate patient blood management, exerting efforts in avoiding transfusion errors, and use of simple transfusion alternatives [25,55]. Much of the transfusion recipients in this study were found to be females (65%) and younger cohorts (mean ±SD age of 27.47 ±15.28 years; median age of 26) of different clinical departments.…”

“…Nowadays, it is estimated that about 10% of hospital admissions needed blood transfusion [11]. Thus, this practice is becoming a common procedure [11][12][13][14] as blood and blood products being prescribed by physicians frequently [15] for transfusion. And also, it has been reported that blood transfusion is among the five overused medical treatments throughout the world [13,15,16].…”