Donor Blood Management: A Complementary Framework to Patient Blood Management
Allameddine Allameddine, Andrea Piccin · 2026
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Allameddine Allameddine and Andrea Piccin propose Donor Blood Management, a framework to protect the value of donated blood all the way from the donor's arm to the patient's vein. Patient Blood Management transformed how hospitals use blood, yet nothing like it guards the donor side, where value leaks away through collection and processing losses, inventory waste, expiry, handling errors, and misuse. The authors define donor value broadly: the gift itself plus the donor's time and trust.
Their framework rests on four pillars: optimizing collection and processing, optimizing inventory, ensuring fitting utilization, and haemovigilance with continuous improvement. Accountability is shared among blood services, hospitals, clinicians, and regulators. They also propose a stewardship metric, the Donor-to-Recipient Value Yield, the share of donated blood that ends up transfused well. It is meant to read linked donor-to-recipient data for quality gains, adding to rather than replacing existing tracking systems.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Allameddine Allameddine, Andrea Piccin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |