Quality

Quality is at the forefront of every AABB Accreditation, every edition of AABB Standards and the work of the entire AABB community.

Since its founding in 1947, AABB has remained committed to advancing quality and safety for the blood and biotherapies field. For many professionals, patients and donors throughout the world, AABB is synonymous with quality.

The programs and tools below have been developed specifically to promote high quality within our community.

Quality Systems Essentials

AABB's updated Quality Systems Essentials is the next step in the evolution of quality for the blood and biotherapies field, as well as a continuation of our efforts to ensure the highest level of quality and safety for donors and patients.

AABB’s Quality System Essentials provides a framework for the maintenance of and development of a Quality Management System (QMS) for facilities seeking to establish a systematic mechanism to ensure quality is infused into every patient or donor process.

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Quality Toolkit

The Quality Toolkit contains a variety of quality tools intended to aid in conformance to AABB Standards. Developed by the AABB Accreditation team to address common nonconformance issues brought forward by members, these tools can be used in a systematic approach to minimize and mitigate any identified nonconformances.

These tools are widely recognized and used by quality professionals to assist in a dynamic and systematic approach to root cause analysis, process flow, risk identification and more. The use of these tools can assist facilities with the identification of process and policy gaps.

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AABB Quality Certificate Program

The AABB Quality Certificate is an internationally recognized distinction of a facility’s commitment to quality and excellence. Available to facilities outside of the United States, AABB’s Quality Certificate Program is based on the Fundamental Standards for Blood Collection and Transfusion.

This distinguished honor is achieved after an assessment process that validates your facility’s compliance with established standards to continuously optimize its organizational outcomes, and ensure the highest levels of donor and patient safety.

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The Systematic Approach to Quality and Regulatory Subsection

This Subsection focuses on issues related to quality management, quality control and regulatory compliance, including problem/deviation investigations, blood utilization review, process/change control, validation and equipment management.

AABB's Subsections help to build a network within interest-specific groups and are open to all AABB members. If you would like to get involved, the Subsection meets on the first Friday of every month. AABB members can join through the My Account section of the website; nonmembers can join AABB now to be a part of this Subsection.