Comparing walk-in and call-responsive donors in a national and a private hospital in Nairobi

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 531-535

  Abdalla, F ^a   Mwanda, O W ^a   Rana, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 33644952390     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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