Patient blood management (PBM) is a patient-centered, evidence-based approach aimed at improving patient outcomes by managing and conserving a patient’s own blood while promoting patient safety and empowerment.
1One of the fundamental elements of implementing PBM is ensuring an adequately trained workforce, including PBM-educated professionals.
2This includes, amongst others, providing postgraduate PBM education for physicians.
This survey was designed by the clinical transfusion working party to evaluate the degree of incooperation of PBM education into postgraduate medical training and its application by early career physicians.
We aim to achieve this by assessing:
1) the extent of PBM inclusion in the postgraduate curricula of physicians
2) the level of PBM knowledge of among early-career physicians
3) the level of PBM practice among early-career physicians
The target audience for this survey are early career physicians including those undertaking their postgraduate studies (residents/trainees) or in the first 5 years of practice.
The Clinical Transfusion Working Party designed this survey to evaluate the need to develop additional PBM educational materials, targeting early-career physicians. We also aim to publish the results of this survey to inform the larger transfusion committee with our recommendations.
We invite you to take part in this survey. Your participation in this survey is voluntary but crucial. All responses will be anonymized, and your data will be handled per the ISBT privacy policy (https://www.isbtweb.org/about/policies/privacy-policy.html).
This survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete. Please complete this survey within 2 weeks. If you cannot answer the questionnaire or are unwilling to participate, we would appreciate it if you could send the survey to early-career physicians working in clinical transfusion in your network.
Thank you for taking part in this survey.
ISBT Clinical Transfusion Working Party
