NAC Sub-Committees
Benchmarking Sub-Committee
1.0 Mandate
To provide advice to NAC for the CBS-Provincial/Territorial Blood Liaison Committee regarding blood and blood product utilization in order to:
- Identify priority areas for utilization review
- Identify priorities for future guideline development
- Facilitate sharing of data across regional, provincial and international jurisdictions.
Key Objectives
- Do inventory review of existing Blood and Blood product utilization management databases in Canada.
- Review CBS data and make recommendations on how it is presented.
- Develop a process to facilitate the request for the use of and publishing of P/T blood and blood product data
- Develop a process for identifying priorities areas for comparison and utilization review.
- Develop minimal data collection elements for key Blood and Blood products in a national registry.
2.0 Membership:
Membership will include the following:
- Dr. Susan Nahirniak (Chair)
- NAC Chair
- Dr. Cindy Whitman
- Dr. Ted Alport
- Dr. Brian Muirhead
- Mathias Haun
- Dr. Catherine Moltzan
- Shannon Selin
- Rob Romans - CBS data warehouse representative.
- Elaine Ashfield - Legal / privacy issue representative.
3.0 Decision Making
3.1 The working group will conduct its business by consensus.
4.0 Meetings
Meetings may be held by teleconference or in person at the call of the chair or request of a member. The NAC Secretariat will:
- Arrange teleconferences/meetings
- Record and distribute minutes of the meetings
5.0 Responsibility
The Benchmarking working group is a subcommittee of NAC. The NAC is accountable to the CBS-P/T Blood Liaison Committee.
6.0 Expenses
Working group members will be reimbursed for travel expenses according to NAC guidelines.
7.0 Conflict of Interest
7.1 Any committee member that has an interest that is or could be seen by a reasonable third party to be a conflict between the committee members' professional interest and the issue that is before the committee must declare such a conflict to the committee chair. If the committee chair is in conflict of interest it must be declared to the committee. Members are to complete a conflict of interest form on an annual basis and update as appropriate for the Committee.
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