Journal of General Practice

Patient Blood Management: An Emerging Process

Abstract

Jim Reid

Patient Blood Management (PBM) may be a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach to optimizing the care of patients who might need a transfusion. Patient blood management represents a world initiative in best practice for transfusion medicine that's supported by the World Health Organization (WHO). Establishing a patient blood management strategy requires leadership and support from national and regional government policymakers and managers, healthcare professionals, and patients. Patients are an important a part of planning, implementing and evaluating PBM programs. Samples of the way to implement PBM are available from Australia, the UK, and therefore the USA. Perhaps the only most vital reason for implementing patient blood management is got to improve patient outcomes. Published in 2017, a retrospective observational study in four major adult tertiary-care hospitals concluded that implementation of a singular, jurisdiction-wide PBM program was related to improved patient outcomes, reduced blood product utilization, and product-related cost savings. Better outcomes are achieved with the reduction or avoidance of exposure to allogeneic blood.
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