End-to-end electronic control of the hospital transfusion process to increase the safety of blood transfusion: Strengths and weaknesses

Transfusion

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 352-364

  Davies, Amanda ^b   Staves, Julie ^b   Kay, Jonathan ^b   Casbard, Angela ^b   Murphy, Michael F ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOFTWARE; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33644699451     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00729.x     Document Type: Article

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