Implementation of a patient blood management monitoring and feedback program significantly reduces transfusions and costs

Transfusion

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2807-2815

  Mehra, Tarun ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^b   Bravo Reiter, Silvina ^a   Wanner, Guido ^c   Dutkowski, Philipp ^d   Holubec, Tomas ^d   Moos, Rudolf M ^a   Volbracht, Jörk ^a   Manz, Markus G ^d   Spahn, Donat R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Division of Trauma Surgery   (Switzerland)

^d Department of Surgery and Transplantation ^*  (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT BLOOD MANAGEMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE; ECONOMICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84959476011     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13260     Document Type: Article

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