Red blood cell transfusion: Precision vs imprecision medicine

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 1557-1558

  Klein, Harvey G ^a   Flegel, Willy A ^a   Natanson, Charles ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; DECISION MAKING; HEMATOCRIT; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

DECISION MAKING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GENOTYPE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84944613417     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.10890     Document Type: Note

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