Editorial: The "sticky" business of "adherence" to transfusion guidelines

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1107-1109

  Tinmouth, Alan T ^a   Hare, Gregory M T ^b,c   Mazer, C David ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CRYOPRECIPITATE; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYPERVOLEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRANSFUSION RELATED ACUTE LUNG INJURY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; NOTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD;

AUSTRALIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77954383819     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-1871-z     Document Type: Editorial

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