Experience of a network of transfusion coordinators for blood conservation (Ontario Transfusion Coordinators [ONTraC])

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-250

  Freedman, John ^a   Luke, Katherine ^a   Escobar, Michael ^a   Vernich, Lee ^a   Chiavetta, Jo Anne ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BLOOD CONSERVATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; PATIENT EDUCATION;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; ONTARIO; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349142166     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01515.x     Document Type: Article

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