Audit of Blood Component Utilization and Request Appropriateness in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study

Description

Blood parts are scarce, and a third of requests at one Indian hospital failed set rules for sound use. Vidhi Jain, Devanshi Gosai, and Dipali Shukla audit those requests in a 2026 study. They review 8,752 requests over six months, from July to December 2025, at the blood bank of a large hospital. Each request was checked against set rules drawn from blood guidance groups.

Sound requests made up seventy point nine percent of the total. Plasma requests broke rules most often, at thirty-five point two percent. Red cell requests followed at twenty-eight point seven percent. Cancer and intensive care wards scored highest on sound use, at eighty-two point two and eighty-one point one percent. Birth wards sat near the bottom at sixty-four point one percent. Cross-matched red cells outran transfused ones by two point one to one.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13595820