The use of a World Health Organization Transfusion Basic Information Sheet to evaluate transfusion practice in Croatia

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 86-91

  Skodlar, Jasna ^a   Stimac D ^b   Majeric Kogler V ^c   Doughty, H ^d   Sibinga, C S ^e  

^a CROATIAN INSTITUTE OF TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Croatia)

^b KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^c University Hospital for Lung Diseases Jordanovac   (Croatia)

^d NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^e Sanquin Bloedbank Regio Nordoost Groningen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Basic Information Sheet; Blood transfusion; Clinical practice; Evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROATIA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CROATIA; DATA COLLECTION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 23844539027     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2005.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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