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Transfusion for anaemia in the district hospital setting
Author(s) -
Ridley J.,
Revell P.,
Ainsworth M.,
Pryce A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
transfusion medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1365-3148
pISSN - 0958-7578
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2003.00422.x
Subject(s) - audit , medicine , documentation , blood transfusion , transfusion medicine , medical audit , pediatrics , emergency medicine , medical emergency , surgery , accounting , business , computer science , programming language
summary . We examined the practice of transfusion for anaemia in our hospitals using an audit method, with standards derived from guidelines published by the British Committee for Standards in Haematology. Documentation was generally good, but simple tests were not performed prior to transfusion in many cases when the diagnosis was not known.