Effectiveness of Multiple Initiatives to Reduce Blood Component Wastage

Effectiveness of multiple initiatives to reduce blood component wastage.

OBJECTIVES Blood component waste is an important issue at all hospitals. As an initiative of the patient blood management program at a regional health care system, the causes and extent of blood product wastage were identified, and targeted interventions to effect a reduction were implemented. METHODS Multiple low-cost interventions, including educational outreach, print and digital messaging...

Lean six Sigma to reduce blood wastage.

Blood management protocol for total knee arthroplasty to reduce blood wastage and unnecessary transfusion.

PURPOSE To compare outcomes of 2 cohorts of patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) before and after the introduction of a blood management protocol. METHODS Records of 97 and 96 consecutive patients who underwent unilateral TKA before and after introduction of the blood management protocol, respectively, were reviewed. Before introduction of the protocol, patients were cross-mat...

Reduce The Wastage of Data During Movement in Data Warehouse

In this research paper so as to handle Data in warehousing as well as reduce the wastage of data and provide a better results which takes more and more turn into a focal point of the data source business. Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are vital fundamentals of resolution hold, which has more and more become a focal point of the database manufacturing. Lots of marketa...

Programmatic evaluation of college initiatives to reduce tobacco use.

College students are particularly vulnerable to tobacco initiation and use, but college prevention services are rare and often unevaluated. The present project evaluated 27 tobacco use prevention initiatives on college campuses in one southern U.S. state. Each initiative included one 20 hour/week on-campus student coordinator, a faculty or staff advisor, and a monitor. An outside evaluator rate...