Feasibility of Safe Blood Transfusion by a Single Healthcare Worker Using an Electronic Patient Identification System
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Failure to verify patient identity before a transfusion is one of the most serious and preventable causes of ABO-incompatible transfusion, prompting the two-person verification principle to be proposed as the standard of care.On the other hand, the advent of electronic verification systems in clinical practice has highlighted the need to reassess this two-person rule internationally.Based on clinical evidence from the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, this paper proposes that safe blood transfusion by a single healthcare worker is achievable when a validated electronic verification system is in operation, and formal guidelines endorsing this practice should be established.(Korean J Blood Transfus 2026;37:102-106)
Authors: Duck Cho, Kyeong-Hee Kim
Institutions: Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Dong-A University
Language: English
Subfield: Biochemistry
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7203720970
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