BayCare Health System Patient Blood Management Standardization Process

Patient blood management

A Management Information System Model for Process-Oriented Health Care

OBJECTIVE To develop a conceptual model of a management information system for process-oriented health care organizations. METHODS Qualitative data was collected from two case studies in process-oriented health care settings. The first study addressed the information requirements of health care managers and the second study focused on organizational activities and clinical practice. From thes...

What Is Process Standardization?

Standards and standardization have played an important role in the evolution of information and communication technology. In parts of the literature on standardization and especially among practitioners we see a new theme emerge: business process standards. While there seems to be a consensus on the desirability of process standards, the concept has not yet been fully developed, and there is ev...

Standardization: Understanding the Process

Critics of the CCITT, ISO, ANSI, X3, IEEE and other Standards Development Organizations ("SDOs") complain that the formal approach to standard-setting followed by these institutions is too bureaucratic and time consuming. In this paper, I briefly describe the key features which distinguish SDO standard-setting and analyze these features in light of recent work in political economy. I argue that...

Patient blood management in Europe

Preoperative anaemia is common in patients undergoing orthopaedic and other major surgery. Anaemia is associated with increased risks of postoperative mortality and morbidity, infectious complications, prolonged hospitalization, and a greater likelihood of allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion. Evidence of the clinical and economic disadvantages of RBC transfusion in treating perioperativ...