“Strategies for Optimizing Lab/Blood Bank Utilization and the important of a Transfusion committee : Reducing Unnecessary Transfusions While Ensuring Patient Safety”

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Wu, D. W., Friedman, M. T., Lombardi, D. P., Hwang, R., Sender, J., Cobaj, V., Niazi, M., Li, Y., & Karpinos, R. (2024). Impact of Patient Blood Management on Red Blood Cell Utilization in an Urban Community Teaching Hospital: A Seven-Year Retrospective Study. Life (Basel, Switzerland), 14(2), 232. https://doi.org/10.3390/life14020232
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hospitalized patient: A single-center “Blood Ordering, Requisitioning, Blood Bank, Issue (of Blood), and Transfusion Delay” study. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 22(12), 825–830. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM-403-18