Economic considerations on transfusion medicine and patient blood management

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-68

  Hofmann, Axel ^a,b,c,d   Ozawa, Sherri ^e   Farrugia, Albert ^b,g   Farmer, Shannon L ^b,c,d   Shander, Aryeh ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^e ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cost effectiveness; health economics; patient blood management; transfusion

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84876281594     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2013.02.001     Document Type: Review

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