Blood utilization at a national referral hospital in sub-Saharan Africa

Transfusion

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1058-1066

  Butler, Elissa K ^a   Hume, Heather ^b,c   Birungi, Isaac ^d   Ainomugisha, Brenda ^b   Namazzi, Ruth ^b   Ddungu, Henry ^b,e   Kajja, Isaac ^b   Nabadda, Susan ^f   McCullough, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^d Global Health Uganda   (Uganda)

^e UGANDA CANCER INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^f MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; ECLAMPSIA; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PEDIATRIC WARD; PLASMA; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RECIPIENT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; ADOLESCENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929268079     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13010     Document Type: Article

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