Factors affecting the frequency of red blood cell outdates: An approach to establish benchmarking targets

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-226

  Heddle, Nancy M ^a   Liu, Yang ^b   Barty, Rebecca ^b   Webert, Kathryn E ^b   Whittaker, Susan ^b   Gagliardi, Kate ^b   Lauzon, Deborah ^b   Owens, Wendy ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INVENTORY CONTROL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BENCHMARKING; CANADA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; TIME FACTORS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 58849164982     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01970.x     Document Type: Article

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