Audit of Blood utilization practices at a Tertiary care hospital: optimising resources

Abstract

Background – Blood is a scarce resource and must be utilized judiciously. Excessive requests for blood transfusions impose significant strain on inventory, personnel, and financial resources. Consequently, an audit was undertaken to evaluate the practices surrounding blood utilization within our institution. Methods- A retrospective, cross sectional study was conducted in the department of Transfusion Medicine to audit blood transfusion requests and transfusion data from 1st Jan 2023 to 31st Dec 2023 at a medical college. Collected data was analysed for Crossmatch to transfusion Ratio (C/T), Transfusion Probability and Transfusion Index.