Prevention of bedside errors in transfusion medicine (PROBE-TM) study: A cluster-randomized, matched-paired clinical areas trial of a simple intervention to reduce errors in the pretransfusion bedside check

Transfusion

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 771-780

  Murphy, Michael F ^a   Casbard, Angela C ^b   Ballard, Sally ^b   Shulman, Ira A ^b   Heddle, Nancy ^b   AuBuchon, James P ^b   Wendel, Silvano ^b   Thomson, Amanda ^b   Hervig, Tor ^b   Downes, Katharine ^b   Carey, Patricia M ^b   Dzik, Walter H ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; PATIENT CODING; RANDOMIZATION; REDUCTION;

BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247638656     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01189.x     Document Type: Article

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