Links
External
These links go to relevant sites outside the Victorian Government Health Information domain, and will open in a new window.
American Association of Blood Banks - Professional Association
Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care
Australian New Zealand Association of Blood Transfusion - Professional Association
Australian Red Cross Blood Service - donor services
Australian Red Cross Blood Service - transfusion medicine services
Better Blood Transfusion Programme - Initiative set up by the National Health Service of Scotland
British Blood Transfusion Society
The British Committee for Standards in Haematology Guidelines - provides access to BCSH guidelines and information on work in progress
British Society for Haematology
California Blood Bank Association
Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine
Clinical Practice guidelines- NHMRC - online NHMRC guidelines
Clinical Risk Management - clinical risk management within the Victorian Department of Health.
Clinical risk management - website for patient safety in Australia and Clinical Risk Management worldwide. This site has been established to assist health care professionals to network clinical risks and patient safety solutions.
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) - the CSL group of companies develops, manufactures, and markets pharmaceutical products of biological origin
Graduate Certificate in Transfusion Practice - University of Melbourne online course website
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- an area of QualityHealthCare.org addresses that addresses patient safety. It features a variety of change concepts, measures, resources, improvement stories, and downloadable tools to to help improve care.
Institute of Biomedical Science
International Society for Blood Transfusion
National Blood Authority Australia
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)-Transfusion Transmitted Injuries (TTI) Section
Reporting of errors and adverse events relating to transfusion in Canada, including education tools.
The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne 'Blood Transfusion' page
On the State of Public Health 2003 - annual report of the UK Chief Medical Officer. Includes section relating to blood transfusion.
Serious Hazards of Transfusion - UK site reporting of errors and adverse events relating to transfusion.
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
UK Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Guidelines - presents the guidelines for the Blood Transfusion Service in the United Kingdom
UK Department of Health - publications bibliography

