The cost of blood transfusion in Western Europe as estimated from six studies

Transfusion

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1983-1988

  Abraham, Ivo ^a,b   Sun, Diana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Matrix45   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WESTERN EUROPE;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865792296     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03532.x     Document Type: Article

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