Process control, procedures to augment quality control of leukocyte-reduced red cell blood products

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1279-1289

  Finch, S J ^a   Chen, J B ^a   Chen, C H ^a   Hall, M M ^a   Matkovich, V ^b   Wenz, B ^b   Brandwein, H ^b   Whitbread, J ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b PALL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; DATA BASE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BLOOD COMPONENT REMOVAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FILTRATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033617680     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990530)18:10<1279::AID-SIM112>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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