Physician compliance with platelet usage criteria

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1321-1324

  Ang, Daphne Chua ^a,c   Marinescu, Luminita ^b   Kuriyan, Mercy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RISK; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 49449111810     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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