Challenges and opportunities to prevent transfusion errors: a Qualitative Evaluation for Safer Transfusion (QUEST).

Nancy M. Heddle; Mark K. Fung; Tor Hervig; Zbigniew M. Szczepiorkowski; Lorella Torretta; Emmie Arnold; Shannon Lane; Michael F. Murphy; BEST Collaborative

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Challenges and opportunities to prevent transfusion errors: a Qualitative Evaluation for Safer Transfusion (QUEST).

September 20, 2012

Heddle NM, Fung MK, Hervig T, et al. Transfusion (Paris). 2012;52(8):1687-95.

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This qualitative study evaluated the processes laboratories use to prevent transfusion of incompatible blood products, which is considered a never event.

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