Effective reduction of blood product use in a community teaching hospital: When less is more

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 894-902

  Politsmakher, Alex ^a   Doddapaneni, Varun ^a   Seeratan, Richie ^b   Dosik, Harvey ^b,c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion Cost savings Patient safety Physician education Red blood cells Restrictive blood use

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; COST CONTROL; CRYOPRECIPITATE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEVER; HEMATURIA; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPOTENSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; URTICARIA;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COST SAVINGS; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN EDUCATION; RED BLOOD CELLS; RESTRICTIVE BLOOD USE;

COST SAVINGS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84884514043     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.06.013     Document Type: Article

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