The costs of producing a unit of blood in Zimbabwe

Transfusion

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 628-636

  Mafirakureva, Nyashadzaishe ^a,b   Nyoni, Herbert ^c   Nkomo, Sisodwa Z ^b   Jacob, Jeffery S ^d   Chikwereti, Radhi ^b   Musekiwa, Zamile ^b   Khoza, Star ^e   Mvere, David A ^b   Emmanuel, Jean C ^b   Postma, Maarten J ^a,f,g   Van Hulst, Marinus ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b National Blood Service Zimbabwe   (Zimbabwe)

^c School of Pharmacy   (Zimbabwe)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^e NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^f Institute of Science in Healthy Aging and HealthCare (SHARE)   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h MARTINI HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ACTIVITY BASED COSTING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MANAGER; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PROCESSING; ZIMBABWE; ECONOMICS;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84960356606     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13405     Document Type: Article

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