The strategy of the CoBAnK study is to establish and enable the function of Community-Facility Transfusion Committees (CFTCs) incorporating diverse representation involving hospital, community, and county leadership, to improve blood availability and transfusion at the point-of-care.
The strategy of the CoBAnK study is to establish and enable the function of Community-Facility Transfusion Committees (CFTCs) incorporating diverse representation involving hospital, community, and county leadership, to improve blood availability and transfusion at the point-of-care. The CFTC strategy will be evaluated across nine transfusing facilities across three counties in Kenya (two intervention and one control site in each county). While the intervention will be tested in "beta" facilities (i.e., facilities without a co-located blood bank) in each county, blood availability will also be measured in "alpha" facilities (i.e., facilities with co-located blood banks) in the three counties, which supply blood to the beta facilities.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
9
Community-Facility Transfusion Committees (CFTCs) are intended to incorporate diverse representation involving hospital, community, and county leadership, to improve blood availability and transfusion at the point-of-care.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Met blood need
The proportion of transfusion requests resulting in dispatch of blood products from the laboratory
Time frame: The time required for the hospital laboratory to process a request for blood for transfusion, up to two weeks.
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