A high rate of compliance with neonatal intensive care unit transfusion guidelines persists even after a program to improve transfusion guideline compliance ended

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2519-2520

  Christensen, Robert D ^a   Henry, Erick ^a   Ilstrup, Sarah ^a   Baer, Vickie L ^a  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL;

EID: 80055004980     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03394.x     Document Type: Letter

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