The relevance of practice misalignments to trials in transfusion medicine

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-23

  Deans, K J ^a,b   Minneci, P C ^a,b   Klein, H G ^c   Natanson, C ^d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Control group; Practice misalignment; Randomized controlled trial; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

APACHE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESEARCH; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE MISALIGNMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; THERAPEUTIC ERROR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77953497424     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2010.01325.x     Document Type: Review

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