Epidemiology of blood component recipients in hospitals of Yazd, Iran

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2-7

  Javadzadeh Shahshahani, H ^a   Hatami, H ^b   Meraat, N ^a   Savabieh, S ^a  

^a HIGH INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood component; Blood transfusion; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN DISEASE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84928207654     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tme.12170     Document Type: Article

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