Prevention of bedside errors in transfusion medicine (PROBE‐TM) study: a cluster‐randomized, matched‐paired clinical areas trial of a simple intervention to reduce errors in the pretransfusion bedside check

Abstract

A simple intervention in the form of a barrier warning label on blood bags reminding staff to check the patient's wristband failed to improve bedside transfusion practice. The robust study design developed for this study could be applied to investigate other interventions to improve the safety of bedside transfusion practice.