Guidance on implementing patient blood management to improve global blood health status

Incorporating expertise from peers working in countries where health care faces extreme resource constraints, attention  is paid to how PBM processes and structures can be embedded in the system. The aim is to reduce maternal mortality  from postpartum haemorrhage, as well as morbidity and mortality from traumatic haemorrhage, and enable more  broad-based anaemia management even when resources are limited. Using the collective experience from health care systems where PBM programmes are well established, this guidance shows how the necessary structures and  processes can be broadly replicated to improve overall population health. This includes women’s health as well as the  clinical outcomes for the rapidly growing population segment of elderly patients, particularly in upper-middle and  high-income countries.