Electronic patient identification for sample labeling reduces wrong blood in tube errors.

Background: Wrong blood in tube (WBIT) errors are a preventable cause of ABO-mismatched RBC transfusions. Electronic patient identification systems (e.g.

Use of fresh-frozen plasma in 2012 at the Fondazione Ca' Granda Hospital of Milan: assessment of appropriateness using record linkage techniques applied to data routinely recorded in various hospital information systems.

Background: The Quality Unit of a research and teaching hospital in Milan assessed the increased clinical use of fresh-frozen plasma in patients treated during 2012 in order to evaluate the appropriateness of this use.

Materials And Methods: For each patient in the study, a pathology profile was generated by means of record linkage techniques involving data collected through different information systems. Patients' information was combined using the patient identifier key generating pathology profiles exported to an Excel file.