Clinical trials and the age of blood: ABLE but still wanting

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 349-350

  Chin Yee, I H ^a   Chin Yee, B H ^b   Pereira, A ^c  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD STORAGE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LETTER; SIMULATION; TRANSFUSION MEDICINE; VASCULARIZATION; CELL AGING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TIME FACTOR;

BLOOD PRESERVATION; CELL AGING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84983177980     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tme.12252     Document Type: Letter

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