A study of the agreement between patient self-assessment and study personnel assessment of bleeding symptoms

Transfusion

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1926-1933

  Webert, Kathryn E ^a   Cook, Richard J ^b   Couban, Stephen ^b   Carruthers, Julie ^b   Heddle, Nancy M ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PETECHIA; PURPURA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF EVALUATION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750332448     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00999.x     Document Type: Article

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