Bottlenecks of blood processing in Uganda

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 329-336

  Kajja, I ^a   Kyeyune, D ^b   Bimenya, G S ^a   Sibinga, C T S ^c  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^b Uganda Blood Transfusion Services (UBTS)   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bloodprocessing; Bottleneck

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; INTERVIEW; UGANDA; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 78149482726     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2010.01015.x     Document Type: Article

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