The aging population poses a global challenge for blood services

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 584-588

  Ali, Akif ^a   Auvinen, Marja Kaisa ^a   Rautonen, Jukka ^a  

^a FINNISH RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICE   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REGISTER; SIMULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD DONORS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 77649209858     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02490.x     Document Type: Article

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