In a Routine Audit of a Facilities Blood Collection Area

question 13

Multiple Choice

In a routine audit of a facilities blood collection area, the quality assurance department found that the blood bags being used on that particular day had expired. What is the appropriate course of action?

• A) Initiate a root cause analysis and quarantine the blood collected in the expired bags.
• B) Call the Food and Drug Administration to report the incidence.
• C) Change the expiration date on the bags to avoid legal issues.
• D) Fire the donor room supervisor, and discard the blood collected in the expired bags.

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Definitions:

Process Distribution Mean

The average value or central tendency of a distribution for a process' outcomes over a period of time.

Common Variation

Variability in data that is shared among all observations or variables being studied.

Randomly Occurring

Randomly occurring refers to events or phenomena that happen without a predictable pattern, often analyzed in probability and statistics to understand patterns and occurrences in data.

Assignable Variation

Variation in a process that can be traced to specific causes, as opposed to random or common cause variation.