Extended red blood cell matching for all transfusion recipients is feasible.

Objective: To demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of extended matching of red blood cells (RBC) in practice.

Background: At present, alloimmunisation preventing matching strategies are only applied for specific transfusion recipient groups and include a limited number of RBC antigens. The general assumption is that providing fully matched RBC units to all transfusion recipients is not feasible.

How to juggle priorities? An interactive tool to provide quantitative support for strategic patient-mix decisions: an ophthalmology case.

An interactive tool was developed for the ophthalmology department of the Academic Medical Center to quantitatively support management with strategic patient-mix decisions. The tool enables management to alter the number of patients in various patient groups and to see the consequences in terms of key performance indicators. In our case study, we focused on the bottleneck: the operating room.