Impact of national transfusion indicators on appropriate blood usage in critically ill patients

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1957-1965

  Leal Noval, Santiago Ramón ^a,b   Arellano Orden, Victoria ^a,b   Maestre Romero, Antonio ^a,b   Muñoz Gómez, Manuel ^a,b   Fernández Cisneros, Virginia ^a,b   Ferrándiz Millón, Carmen ^a,b   Corcia, Yael ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DATA BASE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION INDICATOR; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80052524004     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03091.x     Document Type: Article

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