Take the evaluation below and see if you can gain more efficiency through expanding your automated test menu.
The above score is a composite that combines your hands on time efficiency and your potentially impacted profiles. The range of the score is from 0 to 100 and it is driven by the amount of your pretransfusion compatibility testing that is performed in an automated fashion.
Continue to find out more details on the components of your Impact Score and how to improve it.
Total Test Volume
Tests Automated
Tests Manual
Hands-On Efficiency
Risk Management
Your Impact Score is
The pie graphs above show yours pretransfusion compatibility testing menu. How you perform that test has an impact on your hands on time efficiency and risk management.
Your current automated test menu has allowed you to realize efficiency and risk management gains, however it is evident that significant gains can be made by automating more of your pretransfusion compatibility testing.
Lower volume tests often contribute to a disproportionate share of hands on time requirements. The manual steps required to perform a test impacts your risk management. You will continue to improve your efficiencies and risk management by automating more of your pretransfusion test menu.
Automatic Impact Comparision
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Potentially Impacted Profiles = (Instrument First Pass Yield x automated tests) + Total manual tests
Key Takeways: Little changes can have a big impact on risk reduction and staffing optimization.
Automating (X) more tests could result in a decrease of ( ) of your hands on time and reduction of your potentially impacted tests by ( ). By automating more profiles/tests, patient safety inherently increases by the removal of process steps and hands on time manually manipulating samples. In addition, the gains in efficiency and walk away time allows blood bank technicians to focus their time on more critical and complex tasks such as: result interpretation, allocation of blood units and implementing an evidence based transfusion therapy program.
The road to full automation does not have to occur all at once. Utilize the hands on workload pie charts to determine which test you should prioritize. But set your overall goal at moving all of your compatibility testing to your automated instrument.
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Time estimates are based on Tube and Gel studies performed by Lieta Maffei of Templin Management Associates, Inc. (2005); Individual results may differ.
