Transfusion triggers / practice

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Date Published

Indications for blood transfusion. Are we using the right transfusion trigger?

March 1, 2012

Blood utilization: fostering an effective hospital transfusion culture.

March 1, 2012

Benchmarking: applications to transfusion medicine.

January 10, 2012

Minimal transfusions: comment on “Surgical outcomes and transfusion of minimal amounts of blood in the operating room”.

January 1, 2012

Surgical outcomes and transfusion of minimal amounts of blood in the operating room.

January 1, 2012

Cost-effectiveness of using recombinant activated factor VII as an off-label rescue treatment for critical bleeding requiring massive transfusion.

December 30, 2011

A well-designed online transfusion reaction reporting system improves the estimation of transfusion reaction incidence and quality of care in transfusion practice.

December 1, 2011

How we closed the gap between red blood cell utilization and whole blood collections in our institution.

December 1, 2011

Impact of a Conservative Red Blood Cell Transfusion Strategy in Children Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

November 11, 2011

Role of quality improvement in prevention of inappropriate transfusions.

November 1, 2011

Appropriateness of blood transfusion and physicians’ education: a continuous challenge for Hospital Transfusion Committees?

October 25, 2011

Outcomes research brings best practices to blood and marrow transplantation.

October 1, 2011

Significant reduction of red blood cell transfusion requirements by changing from double- to single-unit transfusion policy in patients receiving intensive chemotherapies or stem cell transplantation.

September 20, 2011

Blood transfusion: the patient’s experience.

September 1, 2011

Avoiding blood transfusion in surgical patients (including Jehovah’s Witnesses).

September 1, 2011

A novel allocation strategy for blood transfusions: investigating the tradeoff between the age and availability of transfused blood.

July 14, 2011

Perioperative Blood Transfusion Practices in Oncologic Thoracic Surgery: When, Why, and How.

July 12, 2011

Transfusion reaction reporting in the era of hemovigilance: where form meets function.

July 11, 2011

HIV/AIDS affects blood and blood product use at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

June 27, 2011

Patient blood management (part 1) – patient-specific concept to reduce and avoid anemia, blood loss and transfusion. [Article in German]

June 17, 2011