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Australia

• Australian Critical Care
  • ‘True Blood’ The Critical Care Story: An audit of blood sampling practice across three adult, paediatric and neonatal intensive care settings [2015]

• National Blood Authority
  • Patient Blood Management Guidelines

• Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
  • Donor Research in Australia: Challenges and Promise [2014]

Australia, New Zealand

• Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion
  • Guidelines for the Implementation and Use of Electronic Medical Records for Transfusion [2021]
  • Guidelines for the Administration of Blood Products [2019]

Canada

• BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office
  • BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office - Resources

• Canadian Blood Services
  • Clinical Guide to Transfusion
  • Best practices

Canada, United States

• Society of Thoracic Surgeons
  • STS/SCA/AmSECT/SABM Update to the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Blood Management [2021]

Caribbean

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Caribbean Regional Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services, 2. ed. [2013]

China

• International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
  • The plasma and platelet are important in reducing the mortality in surgical massive blood transfusion: a large multicenter study in China [2015]
  • Investigation of the current situation of massive blood transfusion in different surgical departments: a large multicenter study in China [2015]
  • Association between frequency of blood tests and mortality rate in patients undergoing massive blood transfusion: a multicenter study in five regions of China [2015]
  • Application status of blood constituents during massive blood transfusion in some regions of China [2014]

• Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
  • Blood Donor Management in China [2014]

• Translational Pediatrics
  • The epidemiology of blood transfusion in hospitalized children: a national cross-sectional study in China [2021]

Denmark

• Blood Transfusion
  • Monitoring compliance with transfusion guidelines in hospital departments by electronic data capture [2014]

Developing countries

• Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
  • Supply, Demand, and Quality: A Three-Pronged Approach to Blood Product Management in Developing Countries [2021]

Eastern Mediterranean

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Summary report on the Regional meeting of directors of national blood transfusion services, Casablanca, Morocco, 17–19 May 2016 [2016]

Europe

• British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Intraoperative transfusion practices in Europe [2016]

• European Blood Alliance
  • The value to blood establishments of supplier quality audit and of adopting a European Blood Alliance collaborative approach [2014]

• European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
  • Transfusion strategies in non-bleeding critically ill adults: a clinical practice guideline from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine [2020]

Germany

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • Transfusion of Packed Red Cells [2015]

Greece

• Turkish Journal of Hematology
  • Current Practice in FFP Preparation and Use in Greece: A National Survey [2021]

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Medical Journal
  • Hong Kong Society of Clinical Blood Management recommendations for implementation of patient blood management [2020]

India

• Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
  • A review of legal, regulatory, and policy aspects of blood transfusion services in India: Issues, challenges, and opportunities [2021]

• Journal of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Patient blood management in India - Review of current practices and feasibility of applying appropriate standard of care guidelines. A position paper by an interdisciplinary expert group [2021]

International

• British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Patient blood management interventions do not lead to important clinical benefits or cost-effectiveness for major surgery: a network meta-analysis [2021]

• Canadian Journal of Surgery
  • Fresh whole blood transfusion capability for Special Operations Forces [2015]

• Vox Sanguinis
  • The systematic use of evidence-based methodologies and technologies enhances shared decision-making in the 2018 International Consensus Conference on Patient Blood Management [2020]

Italy

• Blood Transfusion
  • A nationwide survey of clinical use of blood in Italy [2021]
  • The use of telemedicine in Italian Blood Banks: a nationwide survey [2014]
  • Ethical and legal aspects of refusal of blood transfusions by Jehovah’s Witnesses, with particular reference to Italy [2014]

• Società Italiana di Medicina Trasfusionale e Immunoematologia
  • Recommendations for the transfusion management of patients in the peri-operative period. III. The post-operative period [2011]
  • Recommendations for the transfusion management of patients in the peri-operative period. II. The intra-operative period [2011]
  • Recommendations for the transfusion management of patients in the peri-operative period. I. The pre-operative period [2011]
  • Recommendations for the transfusion of plasma and platelets [2009]

• Transfusion and Apheresis Science
  • How to implement of patient blood management pillar 1: An Italian expert opinion based on a “bundles” approach [2020]

Japan

• Nagoya Journal of Medical Science
  • The ethics of blood transfusion refusal in clinical practice among legal and medical professions in Japan [2020]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Supply of Blood for Transfusion in Latin America and Caribbean Countries 2016-2017 [2020]

Lebanon

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Difficulties in achieving a sustainable blood supply: report from the first national seminar on blood donation in Lebanon [2020]

Myanmar

• Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
  • Status report of the blood transfusion services in Myanmar [2009]

Peru

• Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health Reviews
  • An Analysis of and Recommendations for the Peruvian Blood Collection and Transfusion System [2016]

Portugal

• Acta Médica Portuguesa
  • Improving Awareness about Patient Blood Management in Portugal: A Call for Action Arising from a Delphi Panel [2022]

Republic of Korea

• Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
  • Korean clinical practice guideline for perioperative red blood cell transfusion from Korean Society of Anesthesiologists [2018]

South-East Asia

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Blood Transfusion Services in South-East Asia Region. A 5-year review [2018]

Spain

• Blood Transfusion
  • Quality indicators for Transfusion Medicine in Spain: a survey among hospital transfusion services [2016]
  • The 2013 update of the “Seville Document”: a Spanish multidisciplinary alliance for patient blood management [2013]
  • Spanish Consensus Statement on alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion: the 2013 update of the “Seville Document” [2013]
  • Guidelines on haemovigilance of post-transfusional iron overload [2013]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Trends and Gaps in National Blood Transfusion Services — 14 Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2014–2016 [2018]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Packed red cells versus whole blood transfusion for severe paediatric anaemia, pregnancy-related anaemia and obstetric bleeding: an analysis of clinical practice guidelines from sub-Saharan Africa and evidence underpinning recommendations [2019]

Switzerland

• PLoS ONE
  • Transfusion practice in anemic, non-bleeding patients: Cross-sectional survey of physicians working in general internal medicine teaching hospitals in Switzerland [2018]

Tanzania

• PLoS ONE
  • Risk factors for inappropriate blood requisition among hospitals in Tanzania [2018]

Turkey

• Blood Transfusion
  • Peri-operative blood transfusion in elective major surgery: incidence, indications and outcome – an observational multicentre study [2020]
  • A nationwide Turkish movement to implement Patient Blood Management [2020]

United Kingdom

• Association of Anaesthetists
  • The use of blood components and their alternatives [2016]
  • Blood transfusion and the anaesthetist: management of massive haemorrhage [2010]

• British Blood Transfusion Society
  • UK Transfusion Laboratory Collaborative: minimum standards for staff qualifications, training, competency and the use of information technology in hospital transfusion laboratories 2014 [2014]
  • UK Transfusion Laboratory Collaborative: Recommended minimum standards for hospital transfusion laboratories [2009]

• British Society for Haematology
  • The administration of blood components: a British Society for Haematology Guideline [2017]

• Clinical Medicine
  • Consent for blood transfusion: summary of recommendations from the Advisory Committee for the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO) [2021]

• Joint United Kingdom (UK) Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee
  • Triage tool for the rationing of blood for massively bleeding patients during a severe national blood shortage: guidance from the National Blood Transfusion Committee [2020]
  • Emergency preparedness, resilience and response guidance for UK hospital transfusion teams [2020]
  • JPAC

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Blood transfusion quality standard [2016]
  • Blood transfusion [2015]

• NHS Blood and Transplant
  • Clinical Guidelines

United States

• Blood Advances
  • Blood transfusion trends in the United States: national inpatient sample, 2015 to 2018 [2021]

• Blood Transfusion
  • “Transfusion indication RBC (PBM-02)”: gap analysis of a Joint Commission Patient Blood Management Performance Measure at a community hospital [2014]
  • A new perspective on best transfusion practices [2013]

• Food and Drug Administration
  • Blood Products Advisory Committee

• Transfusion
  • Supplemental findings of the 2019 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey [2021]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Guidance on ensuring a sufficient supply of safe blood and blood components during emergencies [2023]
  • WHO public consultation on the draft proposal on principles for global consensus on the donation and management of blood, blood components and medical products of human origin [2017]
  • Principles on the donation and management of blood, blood components and other medical products of human origin: report by the Secretariat [2017]
  • Principles for global consensus on the donation and management of blood, blood components and medical products of human origin: report by the Secretariat [2017]
  • Blood donor counselling: implementation guidelines [2014]
  • The Clinical Use of Blood in Medicine, Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Surgery and Anaesthesia, Trauma and Burns [2001]
  • Developing a national policy and guidelines on the clinical use of blood: recommendations [2001]
  • Blood products

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