Public-private partnership in cord blood banking

BMJ

Volumn 336, Issue 7645, 2008, Pages 642-644

  Fisk, Nicholas M ^a   Atun, Rifat ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BANK; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYME CELL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STEM CELL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UNITED KINGDOM; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FETUS BLOOD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STANDARD; TRUST;

BLOOD BANKS; FETAL BLOOD; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; TRUST;

EID: 41449114948     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39489.454699.ad     Document Type: Short Survey

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