Decision making in transfusion medicine
By: Eleftherios C. Vamvakas
Contributors: AABB Press
Publisher: AABB Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781563958281
Subjects: Decision Making; Blood Transfusion; Blood Banks; Risk Assessment; Evidence-Based Medicine; Organization & administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Can policy decisions in transfusion medicine be evidence based?; title: Causes of mortality related to allogeneic blood transfusion; title: Assessment of the risk of emerging transfusion-transmitted infections; title: Strategies to further reduce allogeneic-blood-transfusion-related mortality; title: Applications of meta-analysis in transfusion medicine; title: Have policy makers been selectively precautionary in indefinitely deferring men who have had sex with men (MSM) from donating blood?; title: Equipoise and the continued transfusion of "old" blood; title: Paradigm shifts in transfusion medicine.