CEO SUMMARY: New attention on both the risks associated with blood transfusions and the cost of blood products is triggering action by the nation’s hospitals. At the 719-bed Rhode Island Hospital, the laboratory is on the front line of the hospital’s blood management initiative. One change in long-standing practices is to encourage phlebotomists to draw […]
Lab Conserves Blood When Drawing Patients
Rhode Island hospital laboratory has lead role in encouraging adoption of transfusion-free medicine
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XVI No. 1 - January 12, 2009 Issue
