An exploration of the influences on clinical decision making and the culture of blood transfusion practise in cancer-related anaemia using an ethnographic methodology

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-210

  Bishop, Liz ^a   Faithfull, Sara ^b   Allan, Helen ^b  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Blood transfusion; Cancer, neoplasms; Culture; Decision making

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NAVELBINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIALIZATION; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651495339     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-009-0801-5     Document Type: Article

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