Blood Inventory Management: Hospital Best Practice

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-163

  Stanger, Sebastian H W ^a,b,c   Yates, Nicola ^a,b,c   Wilding, Richard ^a,b,c   Cotton, Sue ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NHS BT ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE LIFESPAN; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; EXPIRATION DATE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INVENTORY CONTROL; LABORATORY PERSONNEL;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; ERYTHROCYTES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INVENTORIES, HOSPITAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84858298091     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: 15329496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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