Author:
Farmer Shannon L.,Trentino Kevin,Hofmann Axel,Semmens James B.,Mukhtar S. Aqif,Prosser Gareth,Hamdorf Jeffrey M.,Rao Sudhakar,Leahy Michael F.
Abstract
In July 2008, the Western Australia (WA) Department of Health embarked on a landmark 5-year project to
implement a sustainable comprehensive health-system-wide Patient Blood Management Program. Fundamentally, it was a
quality and safety initiative, which also had profound resource and economic implications. Unsustainable escalating direct
and indirect costs of blood, potentially severe blood shortages due to changing population dynamics, donor deferrals, loss
of altruism, wide variations in transfusion practice and growing knowledge of transfusion limitations and adverse
outcomes necessitate a paradigm shift in the management of anemia and blood loss. The concept of patient-focused blood
management is proving to be an effective force for change. This approach has now evolved to embrace comprehensive
hospital-wide Patient Blood Management Programs. These programs show significant reductions in blood utilisation, and
costs while achieving similar or improved patient outcomes. The WA Program is achieving these outcomes across a health
jurisdiction in a sustained manner.
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Subject
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
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