2006/09/01 by Priscilla Figueroa, Priscilla I. Figueroa, Alyssa Ziman +4 · 50 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Medicine · #ABO blood group system #Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes #Blood donation and transfusion practices #Blood transfusion #Blood transfusion and management #Blood type (non-human) #Blood typing #Immunology #Internal medicine #Medicine #Surgery
paper · pdf · doi:10.1309/c6u7vp87gc030wmg
published in American Journal of Clinical Pathology 126(3), 422-426 (Oxford University Press)
openalex publication_date 2006/09/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
To detect miscollected (wrong blood in tube [WBIT]) samples, our institution requires a second independently drawn sample (check-type [CT]) on previously untyped, non-group O patients who are likely to require transfusion. During the 17-year period addressed by this report, 94 WBIT errors were detected: 57% by comparison with a historic blood type, 7% by the CT, and 35% by other means. The CT averted 5 potential ABO-incompatible transfusions. Our corrected WBIT error rate is 1 in 3,713 for verified samples tested between 2000 and 2003, the period for which actual number of CTs performed was available. The estimated rate of WBIT for the 17-year period is 1 in 2,262 samples. ABO-incompatible transfusions due to WBIT-type errors are avoided by comparison of current blood type results with a historic type, and the CT is an effective way to create a historic type.