Waste Not, Want Not

Hannon, Timothy

doi:10.1309/ajcpm8facvc0rprg

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“…Estimates of wasted blood components range from 200,000 to 1 million in the US annually, with associated costs of 46–230 million US dollars. 10 Many hospitals adopt programs using a maximum surgical blood order schedule (MSBOS). MSBOS contains a list of recommended blood orders for commonly performed surgeries regionally.…”

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Sanguine: Visual analysis for patient blood management

Lin

Metcalf

Wilburn

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Blood transfusion is a frequently performed medical procedure in surgical and nonsurgical contexts. Although it is often necessary or even life-saving, it has been identified as one of the most overused procedures in hospitals. Unnecessary transfusions not only waste resources but can also be detrimental to patient outcomes. Patient blood management (PBM) is the clinical practice of optimizing transfusions and associated outcomes. In this paper, we introduce Sanguine, a visual analysis tool for transfusion data and related patient medical records. Sanguine was designed with two user groups in mind: PBM experts who oversee blood management practices across an institution and clinicians performing transfusions. PBM experts use Sanguine to explore and analyze transfusion practices and their associated medical outcomes. They can compare individual surgeons, or compare outcomes or time periods, such as before and after an intervention regarding transfusion practices. PBM experts then curate and annotate views for communication with clinicians, with the goal of improving their transfusion practices. We validate the utility and effectiveness of Sanguine through case studies.

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Sanguine: Visual analysis for patient blood management

Lin

Metcalf

Wilburn

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“…3,5 Other causes of wastage can include improper transportation, lack of clear policies and enforcement, and communication and knowledge gaps. 2,3,6 Ordering A maximum surgical blood order schedule can aid transfusion services, surgical, and anesthesia personnel in predicting blood product use based on historical experience within their institutions. 7 Jorgenson indicated that although some health care facilities are moving away from using a maximum surgical blood order schedule, it is beneficial because it sets the bar for ordering for all OR personnel.…”

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“…8 These programs, which involve increasing personnel awareness of guidelines, determining approaches to reduce the probability of perioperative transfusions, and routinely providing education, aim to optimize the use of blood products, making them ideal for identifying ways to reduce wastage. 2,8 The Joint Commission provides voluntary patient blood management certification based on AABB Standards for a Patient Blood Management Program to help achieve maximal benefits of establishing such a program. 9 A review process guide and a brochure are available on The Joint Commission website, 9 which also links to a variety of resources from AABB on patient blood management programs, including a toolkit, white paper, certification bundle, posters, infographics, journal articles, frequently asked questions, and more.…”

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Approaches to minimize blood product wastage

Hauk¹

2018

AORN Journal

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“…Hannon et. al [6] reported that the blood component wastage rates usually run from 1% to 5%, and that the amount of disposal is not shared or visible to clarify the reason behind it. Thus, any improvement or development is a significant factor in providing effective healthcare worldwide.…”

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Blockchain-Based Management of Blood Donation

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Today's a large number of blood donation management systems fall short in providing traceability, immutability, transparency, audit, privacy, and security features. Also, they are vulnerable to the single point of failure problem due to centralization. In this paper, we propose a private Ethereum blockchain-based solution to automate blood donation management in a manner that is decentralized, transparent, traceable, auditable, private, secure, and trustworthy. The proposed solution stores non-critical and large data off-chain using the decentralized storage of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). We present the system architecture, sequence diagrams, entity-relationship diagram, and algorithms to briefly explain the working principles of our blood donation management solution. We evaluate the performance of our solution in terms of efficiency and effectiveness through performing security analysis. We make our smart contract code publicly available on Github 1 .

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Waste Not, Want Not

Cited by 11 publications

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Sanguine: Visual analysis for patient blood management

Sanguine: Visual analysis for patient blood management

Approaches to minimize blood product wastage

Blockchain-Based Management of Blood Donation

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