福岡県I & A委員会の活動状況

Abstract

The Fukuoka Committee for Inspection and Accreditation (I & A) Program on Blood Transfusion Practice in Hospitals was founded in May 2000 as a subgroup of the Kyushu I & A committee to create the basis of actual I & A procedures. The committee consists of four medical doctors and sixteen medical technologists who are working at the blood transfusion unit of each hospital, and two medical representatives of Fukuoka Red Cross Blood Center. This committee has met six times to discuss the methods of the I & A program. Since then we have inspected four hospitals, and have been able to improve the standard manual of the I & A program and the I & A report form. Furthermore, several defects identified by the inspectors in the four inspected hospitals have been improved in accordance with the respective inspection reports. For example, one of the four hospitals that had no committee to supervise blood transfusion therapy has newly established this committee in the hospital. In the near future, we will develop an I & A program for the whole Kyushu area. Furthermore, the I & A program should be established as a routine system for appropriate blood transfusion practice throughout Japan. For this purpose, it is necessary to standardize the I & A program and improve the inspection ability of inspectors.