Knowledge and barriers related to reporting of acute transfusion reactions among healthcare workers in Namibia

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 367-369

  Basavaraju, Sridhar V ^a   Lohrke, Britta ^b   Pitman, John P ^c   Pathak, Sonal R ^e   Meza, Benjamin P L ^a   Shiraishi, Ray W ^a   Wilkinson, Robert ^b   Bock, Naomi ^a   Mataranyika, Mary ^d   Lowrance, David W ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b The Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia   (Namibia)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Ministry of Health and Social Services   (Namibia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DYSPNEA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NAMIBIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD SAFETY; FEMALE; MALE;

BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; NAMIBIA;

EID: 84884715732     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tme.12058     Document Type: Letter

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