Justifying the clinical use of fresh frozen plasma-an audit

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 207-210

  Shariff, Mian M ^a   Maqbool, Shazia ^b   Butt, Tayyaba K ^b   Iqbal, Sajjad ^a   Mumtaz, Asim ^a  

^a Shalamar Hospital   (Pakistan)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Appropriate and inappropriate clinical use; Audit; BCSH guidelines; Fresh frozen plasma

Indexed keywords

EID: 63149116112     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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