Status of blood banking and the blood supply in Afghanistan

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 566-574

  Ayyoubi, M Tayyeb ^a   Konstenius, Terri ^a   McCullough, Jeffrey C ^a   Eastlund, Ted ^a   Clay, Mary ^a   Bowman, Robert ^a   Rahmani, Ahmad Masoud ^a   Riley, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN;

EID: 77649222930     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02485.x     Document Type: Article

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