Four decades of National Blood Service in Iran: Outreach, prospect and challenges

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 138-143

  Pourfathollah, A A ^a,b   Hosseini Divkolaye, N S ^c   Seighali, F ^a  

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

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c IRANIAN BLOOD TRANSFUSION ORGANIZATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood donor recruitment; Blood transfusion; Transfusion transmitted infections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATA BASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FRACTIONATION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IRAN; PLASMA; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSFUSION MEDICINE; VASCULARIZATION; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; MALE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84937023844     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tme.12214     Document Type: Article

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