Red blood cell use in Switzerland: Trends and demographic challenges

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 73-82

  Volken, Thomas ^a   Buser, Andreas ^b   Castelli, Damiano ^c   Fontana, Stefano ^d   Frey, Beat M ^e   Rüsges Wolter, Ilka ^f   Sarraj, Amira ^g   Sigle, Jörg ^h   Thierbach, Jutta ⁱ   Weingand, Tina ^j   Taleghani, Behrouz Mansouri ^k  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b Blood Transfusion Centre   (Switzerland)

^c Blood transfusion service of the Svizzera Italiana   (Switzerland)

^d SRK   (Switzerland)

^e Blood Center Zürich   (Switzerland)

^f Lindenhofgruppe   (Switzerland)

^g Blood Transfusion Service Neuchâtelois et Jurassien   (Switzerland)

^h Blood Transfusion Centre Aargau Solothurn   (Switzerland)

ⁱ Blood Transfusion Service Eastern Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^j Blood Transfusion Service SRC Central Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^k Division SBSC   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Blood donation; Demographics; RBC use; Switzerland.

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; EMERGENCY CARE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MONITORING; RECIPIENT; SWITZERLAND; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADULT; BLOOD SAFETY; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD SAFETY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 85041169147     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2016.0079-16     Document Type: Article

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