Reducing the amount of blood transfused: A systematic review of behavioral interventions to change physicians' transfusion practices

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 845-852

  Tinmouth, Alan ^a,b   MacDougall, Laura ^a,b   Fergusson, Dean ^a,b   Amin, Mohammed ^a,b   Graham, Ian D ^a,b   Hebert, Paul C ^a,b   Wilson, Kumanan ^b,c,d  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

BEHAVIOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRYOPRECIPITATE; EDUCATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BEHAVIOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 17644366454     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.8.845     Document Type: Review

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