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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transfusion. 2020 Mar;60(Suppl 2):S17–S37. doi: 10.1111/trf.15715

TABLE 12.

Hospital policies and practices to enhance safety of recipient of blood or blood components, 2015 and 2017

2017 2015

Percent n / N Percent n / N
Transfusion Safety Officer (TSO) on staff 19.3% (448/2319) 16.2% (305/1885)
Data on sample collection error 82.9% (1931/2330) 83.8% (1571/1875)
Program to treat patients who refused blood components for religious, cultural, or personal reasons 73.5% (1697/2310) 71.6% (1332/1860)