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FABB Annual MeetingMay 14, 2015
Richard R. Gammon, M.D.
Medical Director
How A Healthcare System and Its Blood Center Can Co-Develop A Successful Patient Blood Management Program
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Goals/Objectives
• As a result of participation in this CEU activity, learners will be able to:– Discuss how a hospital, with the support of its
blood center, may construct – from the ground up – a maximally effective PBM program
– Define the most useful, benchmark-worthy indicators for measuring a PBM program’s effectiveness
– Review successes and challenges observed following implementation of a PBM program and identify opportunities for the program’s continuous improvement
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SECTION ONE
Background
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Program Evolution
S. Benitez- Santana. Blood Management Summit 11/10
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Cost of Allogeneic Blood
Transfusion 2010; 50: 753-65
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Patient Blood Management Definitions
• AABB– Evidence-based multidisciplinary approach
to optimizing the care of patients who may need transfusion
• SABM– Timely application of evidenced-based
medical and surgical concepts designed to maintain hemoglobin concentration, optimize hemostasis, and minimize blood loss in an effort to improve patient outcomes
Transfusion Medicine’s Emerging Positions- AABB Press 2013
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Introduction
• 13.8 million red blood cell (RBC) units transfused annually in US
• Many potential reasons for the different RBC transfusion practices that exist
• Limited high-quality evidence of the benefits and harms of RBC transfusions
2011 NBCUS
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Optimal RBC Use
• Administering enough maximize clinical outcomes
• Avoiding unnecessary transfusions – Expose patients to
potential infectious/ noninfectious risks
– Increase costs
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SECTION TWO
How to Construct a PBM Program
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Coming Together
• While both blood centers and hospitals may be knowledgeable about patient blood management, individually each may lack resources to implement
• A joint venture, blood center as consultant and three-hospital (400+ beds) healthcare system over a 12-month period will be described
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Create Proposal
• Offer services separately or as a package
• Determine resources needed from both parties
• Build consensus on project objectives
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Obtain Buy-In from Executive Management
Kumar AJ. AABB Webinar 11/13/14
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Obtain Buy-In from Executive Management
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Healthcare System CEO Signs Letter of Agreement
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Establish Working Group
• Blood Center– Medical director– Senior medical technologist – Nurse
• Healthcare System– Blood management coordinator (TSO)– Transfusion service supervisor – Lab manager.
• Met every 2 weeks – 60 minutes
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Project Objectives
• Implement kick-off meetings and engagement programs
• Create transfusion committee• Provide nursing education• Develop and implement auditing processes• Create and send nonconformance letters to
physicians and nurses • Work with IT to enhance the current
physician order entry (CPOE) system
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Create Working Group Agendas
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Establish Project MapEvent Date Format Resources Items Needed Deliverables/Output Status
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Kick-Off Meetings
• Scheduled over a period of 3 days at different times and hospitals
• 60 minute meetings with physicians and nurses of major blood users (ER, OR, Oncology and Orthopedics)
• Provide meals or refreshments• Provide CME/CEUs MT or RNs• PBM Working Group Available for
Questions
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Post links on IntranetGet the Word Out
http://medical.oneblood.org/
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Inform of Resources
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Inform of Resources
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How To Determine Which Benchmarks to Use?
• Must be obtained from existing infrastructure
• Need resources to review and interpret– Raw data is of little value
• Auditable• Actions will allow for improvement
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Getting Ready for the Transfusion Committee
• Determine what to audit– Transfusion consents– Transfusion tags– Transfusion threshold– Discharge instructions– Product trends– Transfusion Reactions
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Provide Templates
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Develop Charter and Attendance Policy
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Create Nonconformance Letters
• Before you get started– Determine if informational vs. punitive– Determine if first letter is not answered,
will additional letters be sent?
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Use Format That Encourages Compliance – Physician Letter
Fillable fields, email responses
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Use Format That Encourages Compliance- Nursing Letter
Individual Letters, Nursing Supervisor has to sign
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Do SOPs=CPOEs?
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CPOE - Clinical Decision Support
• Provides labs/articles/or institutional guidelines
• Asks clinician - want to continue with order?
Transfusion 2012; 52: 1640-45Transfusion and Apheresis Science 2014; 51: 53-58
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CPOE - Clinical Decision Support
• Plasma orders – 10-month period– 1,808 triggered
alerts and 19.6% (354) were cancelled
• RBC warning screen – 15 month period– 15,352 triggered
alerts and 11.3% (1,649) were cancelled RBC Audits
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Create Transfusion Committee
• Consultant (OneBlood) (Chair)
• Laboratory/Transfusion Service Pathologist
• Hematology/Oncology • Surgery/Cardiothoracic• Anesthesia• Obstetrics/Gynecology• Hospitalist • Nephrology • Emergency Department• Assistant Vice President• Hematology/Oncology • Acute Care/Nursing • Nursing Education
• Coordinator/Blood Utilization • Supervisor/Transfusion Service • Director/Laboratory Services • Corporate Director/Laboratory
Services • Manager/Laboratory• Supervisor/Physician Quality
Resources • Vice President/Quality• Director/Risk Management • Outpatient
Infusion/Supervisor/Director/ Business Development(OneBlood)
• Acute Care Nursing • Specialist/Therapeutic
Apheresis(OneBlood)• Assistant/Administrative
(OneBlood)
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Rotate Transfusion Committee Chair
• Year 1– Chair from OneBlood
• Year 2– Chair from Healthcare System
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SECTION THREE
Program Challenges
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Results
• All objectives were achieved
• Each had challenges that required a solution
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Challenge 1
Objective Challenge Solution• Kick-Off
Meetings• Engagement
Programs
• Low attendance
• Mandatory for all employed physicians
• Mandatory 1-hour webinar for all new physicians
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Challenge 2
Objective Challenge Solution• Transfusion
Committee• Initial chair
from BC• Hospital
physician to chair
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Challenge 3
Objective Challenge Solution• Nursing
education• Most
possessed basic knowledge
• Blood administration policy did not match current practice
• BMC walked the floors and met during huddles
• Onsite audits of transfusions with feedback
• Novice nurses program for new hires
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Example of Transfusion Audit
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Challenge 3
Objective Challenge Solution• Nursing
education• Most possessed
basic knowledge• Blood
administration policy did not match current practice
• Revised blood administration policy based upon current practice
• How to guides (e.g. document blood administration in EMR)
• Tips and tricks sheet
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Challenge 4
Objective Challenge Solution• Auditing
Process• Located data
in several locations within electronic medical records (EMR)
• IT created Crystal Report – review 2-3 areas vs. 20
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Challenge 5
Objective Challenge Solution• Nonconformance
letters• No one wanted
letters in their files- concerned would affect recredentialing
• Send in format to ensure response
• 1st year- Informational only
• Sent using secure email
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Challenge 6
Objective Challenge Solution• IT • SOPs did not
match CPOE • Labs and SOPs not
easily available to ordering physician
• Low compliance with discharge instructions (DI)
• Update CPOE to match SOPs
• Implement clinical decision support system (last 3 labs and link to SOPs)
• DI automatically printed at time consent generated
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Project Results
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SECTION FOUR
Opportunities for Continuous Improvement/AABB’s Choose Wisely Initiative
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Why give 2 when 1 will do?
Complications associated with transfusions are dose-dependent
“Transfusion Trigger” hemoglobin < 7.0 g/dL
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J.L. Carson, D.G. et al. Risk of bacterial infection associated with allogeneic blood transfusion among patients undergoing hip fracture repair. Transfusion 1999; 39:694-700
R King TSO Workshop 05/15
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Background
• American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation
• Designed to help physicians and patients engage in conversations
• Reduce overuse tests and procedures • Support physician efforts to help
patients make smart and effective care choices
Transfusion epub 080614 doi: 10.1111/trf.12802
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#1 Don’t transfuse more units of blood than absolutely necessary
• A restrictive threshold (7.0-8.0g/dL) should be used for the vast majority of hospitalized, stable patients without evidence of inadequate tissue oxygenation
• Evidence supports a threshold of 8.0g/dL in patients with existing cardiovascular disease
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#1 Don’t transfuse more units of blood than absolutely necessary
• Transfusion decisions should be influenced by symptoms and hemoglobin (Hb) concentration
• Single unit red blood cell (RBC) transfusions should be the standard for nonbleeding hospitalized patients
• Additional units should only be prescribed after reassessment of the patient and their Hb value
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#2 Don’t transfuse RBCs for iron deficiency without hemodynamic instability
• Blood transfusion has become a routine medical response despite cheaper and safer alternatives in some settings
• Preoperative patients with iron deficiency and patients with chronic iron deficiency without hemodynamic instability (even with low Hb levels) – Oral and/or intravenous (IV) iron
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Anemia Management
Benitez-Sanchez – Blood Management Workshop 11/11
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#3. Don’t routinely use blood products to reverse warfarin• Patients requiring
reversal of warfarin can often be reversed with vitamin K alone
• Prothrombin complex concentrates or plasma should only be used for patients with serious bleeding or requiring emergency surgery
Overuse of plasma transfusion. ASCP Webinar 05/08/13
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#4 Don’t perform serial blood counts on clinically stable patients
• Blood counts – Reason to believe that
a new clinically significant abnormality will be detected
• Stable patients– Serial blood counts are
unlikely to detect clinically significant abnormalities
– Contribute to iatrogenic anemia
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#5. Don’t transfuse O– blood except to O– patients and in emergencies for women of childbearing potential with unknown blood group
• O– blood units are in chronic short supply
• Overutilization for patients who are not O–
• O– RBCs restricted to– O– patients – Women of childbearing potential
• Unknown blood group • Require emergency transfusion before blood
group testing can be performed
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Conclusions
• The collaboration of a blood center and healthcare system allowed for the optimization of resources and expertise
• At the conclusion of the project, the healthcare system had a self-sustaining PBM program
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First Known Photograph Of A Transfusion
Transfusion 2006; 46: 1855