McMaster Transfusion Research Program

Please see below for the “Sharing Our Strategies” Manual, 1st edition. It is also currently under revision for the 2nd edition, to be available early in 2007.

(From left to right) Kate Gagliardi, Sharon McMillan, Angela Fiorillo, Diana Boye, Ilona Resz,
Rebecca Barty, Denise Evanovitch, Silvia Sunesen, Nancy Heddle, Rosanne Frassetto

The Hamilton-Niagara Quality Essentials for Safe Transfusion (QUEST) project team disbanded in March 2004.
Please click here for an update on current Ontario initiatives.

Team Members
Current Activities
QUEST Newsletter
Blood Administration
Impact Analysis

To view a power point presentation of a Transfusion Medicine Refresher for those technologists working in a core lab setting or wishing to refresh basic knowledge, please click here!

To view a strategy for the creation and implementation of a community hospital wide Surgical Blood Ordering List (SBOL), please click here!

To view the process by which a Patient Identification Proposal was created by Niagara QUEST and OnTraC team members, please click here!

To view SOS, Sharing Our Strategies,
please click here!

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To view the Regional Document Control System in a Multi-site Community Hospital Setting, created by QUEST Hamilton/Niagara,
please click here!

If you would like to view the
QUEST (Hamilton-Niagara) newsletters,
please click here!