• Claus U Niemann and John Feiner.
• Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Division of Transplantation, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0648, USA. niemannc@anesthesia.ucsf.edu
• Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2010 Jun 1; 15 (3): 374-6.

Purpose Of ReviewQuality improvement efforts are increasingly applied in transplant medicine and are related to graft/patient outcomes and reimbursement from third-party insures. Perioperative care of transplant patients has only recently attracted attention and quality improvement efforts are not well established.Recent FindingsResearch investigations in perioperative care of transplant patients frequently focus on only one variable (i.e., transfusion rate) and, therefore, are of limited significance.SummaryIn order to improve perioperative care of transplant patients, perioperative quality improvement protocols have to be established at transplant centers. These protocols need to include a comprehensive electronic database that can be easily queried, a periodic review of practice pattern based on existing data, and a well established mechanism for necessary practice adjustments.

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