Tubes for pretransfusion testing should be collected by blood bank staff and hand labelled until the implementation of new technology for improved sample labelling. Results of a prospective study

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-56

  Gonzalez Porras, J R ^a   Graciani, I F ^a   Alvarez, M ^a   Pinto, J ^a   Conde, M P ^a   Nieto, M J ^a   Corral, M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Errors; Miscollection; Mislabelling; Sample collection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STAFF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EDUCATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PRODUCT LABELING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 44849137128     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2008.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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