Is best transfusion practice alone best clinical practice?

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 172-174

  Spahn, Donat R ^a   Vamvakas, Eleftherios C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TRANSFUSION;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84876906982     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2012.0283-12     Document Type: Editorial

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