Study of “Discard Rate” of Whole Human Blood: Useful Blood Center Quality Indicator

Abstract

Background: Blood is a valuable, life-saving material which should not be discarded or wasted to have the required blood supply to the patients. Aims and Objectives: The aim of the present study is to find out the major causes of blood discard from the blood center so that preventive strategies can be undertaken by proper training of blood center personnel, awareness of blood donor motivators. Materials and Methods: In this study, the number of discarded blood units and the total number of units collected have been taken from blood center registers for each year and then the discard rate has been calculated. Results: Discard rate has been found more in this study due to transfusion transmissible infections positive cases in comparison to discard due to insufficient quantity. No discard due to other causes recorded in the Blood Centre Registers. Conclusion: From this study, it is concluded that proper screening of blood donors by proper medical examination and donor counseling are very important in this connection. Moreover, proper training of the blood center personnel and blood donor motivators are equally important.

Keywords

• Blood center
• discard rate
• quality indicator
• whole blood