Implementing a program to improve compliance with neonatal intensive care unit transfusion guidelines was accompanied by a reduction in transfusion rate: A pre-post analysis within a multihospital health care system

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 264-269

  Baer, Vickie L ^a   Henry, Erick ^a   Lambert, Diane K ^a   Stoddard, Ronald A ^a   Wiedmeier, Susan E ^a   Eggert, Larry D ^a   Ilstrup, Sarah ^a   Christensen, Robert D ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

EID: 79951643700     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02823.x     Document Type: Article

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