A team approach to decrease wasted blood products

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 833-839

  Jefferies, Leigh ^a   Smith, M Elizabeth ^a   Magee, Deborah ^a   Wallace, Patricia ^a   Horgan, Meg ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BANK; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; TEAMWORK; WASTE;

EID: 0029965613     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/27.12.833     Document Type: Review

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