Studying Transfusion Committees for Improving Blood Availability in Kenyan
Hospitals
A type III hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial to establish, enable
and assess 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 (without a co-located blood bank) in
each county, blood availability will also be measured in “alpha”
facilities (with co-located blood banks) in the three counties, which
supply blood to the beta facilities.
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Juan Carlos Puyana & Dr. Pratap Kumar