Organizational monitoring of patient blood management implementation: Results of an Italian national survey
Vanessa Agostini, Francesca Masiello, Stefania Vaglio, Eva Veropalumbo, Ursula La Rocca, Simonetta Pupella, Vincenzo De Angelis, Luciana Teofili · 2026
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Vanessa Agostini and co-authors survey how far patient blood management has spread across Italy, in a 2026 study. The approach treats a patient's own blood as a resource to guard: it fixes anemia before surgery, cuts needless transfusions, and lowers costs. Italy's national blood center sent a new survey in 2021 to check how services organize this work, above all care of anemia before operations.
Fourteen of 20 invited services replied. Only about 36 percent had a formal company procedure for the approach, and half wrote a yearly report on it. All tracked falling blood use, but only two ran yearly audits of the program. The gaps let the authors draft shared recommendations for a stronger national system.
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| CREATOR | Vanessa Agostini, Francesca Masiello, Stefania Vaglio, Eva Veropalumbo, Ursula La Rocca, Simonetta Pupella, Vincenzo De Angelis, Luciana Teofili |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |