MEDICO-LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF PROVIDING BLOOD COLLECTION AND TRANSFUSION SERVICES

(APA).

Administrative Procedure Act

(CLIA 88)

Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1988

Blood banks and transfusion services are also federally regulated by these two provisions

Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1988 (CLIA 88) and the

Medicare provisions of the Social Security Act.

[HIPAA]

Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act

(HITECH) Act

2008 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health

(GINA)

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

is defined as any wrong-doing for which action for damages may be brought

Tort

Autonomy -

The right of each person to make decisions based on that person’s values and beliefs, having adequate information and an understanding of the choices available to him or her and lacking any compulsion by external forces

In the health-care setting, professionals seek the well-being of each patient

Beneficence -

“An Act Regulating the Collection, Processing and Sale of Human Blood, and the Establishment and Operation of Blood Banks and Blood Processing Laboratories.”

RA. 1517

An act promoting voluntary blood donation (selling of blood is not encouraged as well as paying the donor), providing for an adequate supply of safe blood, regulating blood banks, and providing penalties for violation thereof.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7719

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7719 is Also known as

The National Blood Services Act Of 1994

- greatest threat to safe transfusion therapy

Clerical error

require two unique identifiers to identify patients and ensure that correct medicine and treatment are administered

The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals

○ refers to the serologic aspect of pretransfusion testing.

■ Performed to prevent an immune mediated hemolytic transfusion reaction

Compatibility Testing