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Blood collection and use in the United States: you can't manage what you can't measure
Author(s) -
Klein Harvey G.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1111/trf.13724
Subject(s) - commission , government (linguistics) , general partnership , medicine , resource (disambiguation) , public relations , business , political science , computer science , finance , computer network , linguistics , philosophy
Only in recent years has the use of human blood and blood products expanded markedly. This expansion has resulted from the development of scientific knowledge regarding the use of blood in medical treatment. Increasing demands for this resource have led to the establishment of a vast complex of organizations that collect, process, and distribute blood and its products. Comprehensive information about the nation’s growing blood resource has not been available.