The Computer and Blood Banking

Structure and Goals of Transfusion Medicine.- Functions of Patient-Oriented Blood Transfusion Services.- Tasks of a Regional Blood Transfusion Service.- Different System Approaches in Transfusion Medicine.- Central Registration of HLA-typed Blood Donors.- The Integration of Blood Transfusion Service into a Central Hospital Information System.- Experiences with Distributed Data Processing in Blood Transfusion.- The Laboratory Data System as an Integral Part of an EDP System for a Blood Donor Service.- On-line Data Aquisition in the Laboratories of the Red Cross Blood Center of Ulm (Germany).- Actual Development in Machine Readable Identification.- Principles of Economic Evaluation Manuscript not received.- Experience with a National Blood Transfusion System Integrating a Central Computer Service with Hospital-based Mini-Computer Routines.- Evaluation of EDP Systems for Transfusion Medicine: Criteria from the User's Point of View.- Systems Analysis in Regional Blood Management.- Theoretical Foundations of a Concept for a decision Support System.- A Comparison of decentralized and centralized Dispostion Systems for Red Cell Concentrates.- Restrictions concerning Automated Disposition Systems from the Medical Point of View.- Experience with a National Blood Transfusion System Integrating a Central Service with Hospital-Based Mini-Computer Routines (Posters).- Automation of Administrative and Laboratory Data Processing in a Hospital Transfusion Service Phase I: Batchwise Data Processing.- Data Processing in a Blood Bank Center.- A Laboratory System for Blood Group Typing.- Map of Data Processing in Blood Centers in Western Germany.- TRAMIDIS II Donor Disposition.- The Recipient-Information-System.- CUTRAMED - Computer-assisted Transfusion Medicine at the University ofTübingen.- Computer Applications for the Blood Transfusion Service of the Göttingen University Hospital.- EDP-Project Berlin Blood Donor Service.- Pilot Project Laboratory Data Processing in Immunology and Serology.- Organizational Concept for the Data Transmission with External Data Media.- Specifications by Step-wise Refinement of the System for the Blood Donor Service.- Section "Blood Donor Service" with Donor's Data Sheet as Major Data Carrier.- Section "Blood Product Depot" with State of Product and Internal Data Transmission.- Transfusion Service Including Transfusion Record and Blood Recipient Risk Data File.- Experiences Gained from the Newly Developed Programming Language "System PASCAL" upon Realizing the Information System for the Clinical Blood Donor Center in Heidelberg.- The Installment of an Electronic Documentation System at the Blood Donor Service in the State Hospital in Homburg.- Experiences with the Philips-P-310-Office Computer in a University Blood-Bank.- Computer System of the German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Rheinland-Pfalz.- The EDP-System in the Blood Collection Service of the Bavarian Red Cross.- A Computer-aided Information System for the HLA-typed Regular Donors of the Bavarian Red Cross Blood Donation Service.- EDP-Assisted Donor-Recipient Selection in Histocompatibility-Matched Kidney Transplantation.- Selection of Compatible Donors and Evaluation of HLA-Seroscreening Data by Computer Programs.- Clinical Documentation System for the Hemophilia Center.- Interactive Information System of Self-Treatment in Haemophilia.- Synopsis of Donor Related Data of Various EDP Systems.- Blood Product Related Data.- Blood Recipient Related Data.- Author Index.