Revolutionizing Blood Quality Assurance to Ensure Error-Free Transfusions for Millions
The article discusses the importance of implementing organization-wide quality assurance to ensure high-quality blood products and services. This involves everyone in the organization taking responsibility for maintaining quality, with a focus on building quality into processes and systems. Quality planning is highlighted as a key strategy for designing quality into processes effectively. Continuous quality improvement and error-free processing are emphasized as essential goals for blood establishments. The auditing process is realigned to support these objectives. By adopting total quality management, blood establishments can guarantee the quality of products transfused to millions of patients each year.