Serious Hazards of Transfusion: A Decade of Hemovigilance in the UK

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 273-282

  Stainsby, Dorothy ^a   Jones, Hilary ^a   Asher, Deborah ^a   Atterbury, Claire ^a   Boncinelli, Aysha ^a   Brant, Lisa ^a   Chapman, Catherine E ^a   Davison, Katy ^a   Gerrard, Rebecca ^a   Gray, Alexandra ^a   Knowles, Susan ^a   Love, Elizabeth M ^a   Milkins, Clare ^a   McClelland, D Brian L ^a   Norfolk, Derek R ^a   Soldan, Kate ^a   Taylor, Clare ^a   Revill, John ^a   Williamson, Lorna M ^a   Cohen, Hannah ^a  

^a Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) Steering Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD BANK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MORBIDITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK REDUCTION; SAFETY; TRANSFUSION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATA COLLECTION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE, POSTMARKETING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33748917315     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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