The Joint Commission announced a comment period for the Patient Blood Management performance measures through April 19.
The Joint Commission developed the Blood Management Performance Measures from 2007 to 2010, and then began work on the Patient Blood Management performance measures last year after a grant from Masimo to build upon the previous measures.
The Technical Advisory Panel is guiding the work and there are six draft candidate performance measures:
• Pre-op anemia screening
• Pre-op hemoglobin level
• Pre-op type and crossmatch, type and screen
• Initial transfusion threshold
• Blood conservation
• Outcome of patient blood management
The measures will be evaluated and tested through the third quarter of this year.