Economics of blood screening: In search of an optimal blood screening strategy

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-34

  Chinkhumba, Jobiba ^a  

^a St Gabriels Mission Hospital   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SYPHILIS;

AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYPHILIS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 32644448587     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/004947506775598815     Document Type: Article

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