Demographic changes: The impact for safe blood supply

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 141-148

  Greinacher, Andreas ^a   Fendrich, Konstanze ^a   Hoffmann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood supply; Demography; Donor research

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; BLOOD DONOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN UNION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEX RATIO;

EID: 77953742137     PISSN: 16603796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313949     Document Type: Review

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