Diagnostic blood sampling: How much is too much?

Expert Review of Hematology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-7

  Salisbury, Adam C ^a,b   Kosiborod, Mikhail ^a,b  

^a Saint Luke's Mid America Heart and Vascular Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

anemia; hospitalization; outcomes; phlebotomy

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANEMIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD CONSERVATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; BLOOD VOLUME; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED ANEMIA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; PHYSICIAN;

ANEMIA; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; PHLEBOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856255689     PISSN: 17474086     EISSN: 17474094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ehm.11.84     Document Type: Editorial

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