Blood donation and donor recruitment in Iran from 1998 through 2007: Ten years' experience

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2346-2351

  Maghsudlu, Mahtab ^a   Nasizadeh, Soheila ^b   Abolghasemi, Hassan ^b   Ahmadyar, Shima ^b  

^a IRANIAN BLOOD TRANSFUSION ORGANIZATION   (Iran)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATA BASE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IRAN; TREND STUDY;

EID: 70449131362     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02309.x     Document Type: Article

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