An optimized strategy for choosing the number of platelet concentrates to pool

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 928-930

  Hoeltge, Gerald A ^a   Shah, Amrik ^a   Miller, John P ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

EID: 0032885436     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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