National Wrong Blood In Tube - Irish Blood Transfusion Service
National Wrong Blood In Tube - Irish Blood Transfusion Service
National Wrong Blood In Tube - Irish Blood Transfusion Service
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Total specimens received & WBIT incidences<br />
June – August 2011<br />
Jun ’11<br />
Jul ’11<br />
Aug ’11<br />
Total for<br />
3-month period<br />
Samples<br />
received<br />
24,023<br />
23,326<br />
23,797<br />
71,146<br />
No. of WBIT<br />
<strong>In</strong>cidences<br />
4<br />
5<br />
6<br />
15<br />
Average rate of<br />
WBIT per month<br />
One hospital accounted for 3 of the 15 WBIT<br />
incidences reported in this survey<br />
0.017%<br />
0.021%<br />
– a WBIT rate of 0.2% (or 1 in 503 specimens)<br />
0.025%<br />
0.021%<br />
This hospital had a mislabelling rate of 3.5%<br />
(or 1 in 4,743<br />
specimens)<br />
Range in WBIT incidences for the hospitals<br />
who responded is 0.0% to 0.2%
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