TY - JOUR
T1 - The transfusion service is an integral and important component of the hospital and should not be outsourced
AU - Domen, Ronald
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Hospitals are under increased pressure to decrease operating costs. Hospital-based laboratories, blood banks (transfusion services), increasingly face the potential of being outsourced as hospitals try to survive the current waves of managed care. A number of complicated and unique services are provided by the hospital-based transfusion service and physician. Clinical consultation, complicated immunohematological procedures, apheresis, participation in a complex array of patient-care services, clinical research, ever increasing regulatory issues, and quality assurance activities are only a few of the challenges in today's transfusion medicine environment. This paper will focus on the hospital-based transfusion service, and the transfusion medicine physician, and present arguments as to why this service should remain close to the patient's bedside and not be outsourced.
AB - Hospitals are under increased pressure to decrease operating costs. Hospital-based laboratories, blood banks (transfusion services), increasingly face the potential of being outsourced as hospitals try to survive the current waves of managed care. A number of complicated and unique services are provided by the hospital-based transfusion service and physician. Clinical consultation, complicated immunohematological procedures, apheresis, participation in a complex array of patient-care services, clinical research, ever increasing regulatory issues, and quality assurance activities are only a few of the challenges in today's transfusion medicine environment. This paper will focus on the hospital-based transfusion service, and the transfusion medicine physician, and present arguments as to why this service should remain close to the patient's bedside and not be outsourced.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0955-3886(97)00055-6
DO - 10.1016/S0955-3886(97)00055-6
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 10178681
AN - SCOPUS:0346441488
SN - 0955-3886
VL - 18
SP - 565
EP - 573
JO - Transfusion Science
JF - Transfusion Science
IS - 4
ER -