Blood Component Use in a Sub-Saharan African Country: Results of a 4-Year Evaluation of Diagnoses Associated With Transfusion Orders in Namibia

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 45-51

  Pitman, John P ^a,b   Wilkinson, Robert ^c   Liu, Yang ^a   von Finckenstein, Bjorn ^c   Smit Sibinga, Cees Th ^d   Lowrance, David W ^e   Marfin, Anthony A ^a   Postma, Maarten J ^b,f   Mataranyika, Mary ^g   Basavaraju, Sridhar V ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Namibian Blood Transfusion Service   (Namibia)

^d ID Consulting for International Development of Transfusion Medicine   (Canada)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g Ministry of Health and Social Services   (Namibia)

Author keywords

Blood safety; Blood transfusion; Namibia; PEPFAR

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NAMIBIA; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PREGNANCY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGED; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMIBIA; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921875890     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: 15329496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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