Patients' positive identification systems

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 313-318

  Pagliaro, Pasqualepaolo ^a   Turdo, Rosalia ^b   Capuzzo, Enrico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CARLO POMA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mistransfusion; Recipient identification; Transfusion safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPUTER; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; SAFETY;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 73449132265     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2009.0001-09     Document Type: Article

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