New data partnerships will boost national cutting edge research

The National Transfusion Dataset (NTD) received investment support from the ARDC to build on the Australian and New Zealand Massive Transfusion Registry (ANZ-MTR) and pilot Transfusion Database (TD). This project will establish a new national transfusion data asset which will incorporate data from several national clinical datasets and improve blood utilisation and patient management and outcomes. The NTD will describe numbers and characteristics of patients transfused prehospital (for example, by ambulance/retrieval services), in hospital, or in the community, or reasons for and outcomes of transfusion. This data asset will include data on all (not just massive) transfusions.