Ethics and quality in blood services

Authors

  • María del Carmen García Crispieri Ministerio de Salud y Deportes

Abstract

The increasing link among ethics-science-technology-quality-society, especially in the last four decades, has had great implications in transfusion medicine. In present study, relations among ethics, bioethics and quality aspects and their application in the field of transfusion medicine are analyzed, as a necessary consequence of principles that influence physical, psychological and spiritual lives of persons.

Keywords:

science, society, quality, bioethics, secure blood donation and transfusion

Author Biography

María del Carmen García Crispieri, Ministerio de Salud y Deportes

Médico, Hematólogo-Hemoterapueta. Coordinadora General del Programa Nacional de Sangre, Ministerio de Salud y Deportes, La Paz, Bolivia