College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Checklist item TRM.44955: Phase I requirement on bacterial detection in platelets

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 958-963

  Shulman, Ira A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDITORIAL; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INFECTION RISK; PATHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ACCREDITATION; BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; SEPSIS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444354358     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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