Pretransfusion testing practices in North America, 2005-2010: An analysis of the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program J-Survey Data, 2005-2010

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 294-300

  Downes, Katharine A ^a,b   Shulman, Ira A ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP TYPING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DATA COLLECTION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 84858041411     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/2011-0127-CPR.1     Document Type: Review

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