Implications of demographics on future blood supply: A population-based cross-sectional study

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 702-709

  Greinacher, Andreas ^a,b   Fendrich, Konstanze ^a,b   Brzenska, Ralf ^a,b   Kiefel, Volker ^a,b   Hoffmann, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECIPIENT; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954612754     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02882.x     Document Type: Article

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