Blood transfusion practice in a rural hospital in Northern Ghana, Damongo, West Gonja District

Transfusion

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2161-2166

  Kubio, Chrysantus ^a   Tierney, Geraldine ^a   Quaye, Theophilus ^a   Nabilisi, James Wewoli ^a   Ziemah, Callistus ^a   Zagbeeb, Sr Mary ^a   Shaw, Sandra ^a   Murphy, William G ^a  

^a IRISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; GHANA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SYPHILIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ADULT; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GHANA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; IRELAND; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SYPHILIS; TEMPERATURE; VIREMIA;

EID: 84868301356     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2012.03709.x     Document Type: Article

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