Reducing the amount of blood transfused by changing clinicians' transfusion practices

Transfusion

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Tinmouth, Alan ^b   MacPherson, Jim ^a  

^a America's Blood Centers   (United States)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE COST; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATA COLLECTION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PLASMA; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 34447648498     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01369.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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