Changing trends in blood transfusion in children and neonates admitted in Kilifi District Hospital, Kenya

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Pedro, Rosalon ^a,b   Akech, Samuel ^a   Maitland, Kathryn ^a,c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b Centro de Investigaço em Sade em Angola CISA   (Angola)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; INFANT; KENYA; KWASHIORKOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MARASMUS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HOSPITALIZATION; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTILIZATION REVIEW; ERRATUM; ERROR;

ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77958566734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-307     Document Type: Article

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