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Compliance Of Hand Written Transfusion Requisition Form And Improvement After Online Request - A Clinical Audit, Nadia Nasir, Mohammad Usman Shaikh, Natasha Ali, Shabneez Hussain

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Objective: To assess the compliance of healthcare personnel with regard to sending completely filled transfusion requisition forms.
Methods: The audit was conducted at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised requisition slips received at the hospital blood bank from September 2014 to February 2015. The British Committee for Standards in Haematology guidelines was used as the standard. Percentage of each variable on the proforma was analsyed. Rating Results: The audit and the re-audit both comprised 1000 transfusion requisition forms each. In the audit, The sum of total scores of all the transfusion requisition forms was 4911, indicating a compliance rate …