Hemovigilance: a system to improve the whole transfusion chain
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Hemovigilance: a system to improve the whole transfusion chain
Hemovigilance is used to track and reduce the occurrence of adverse events associated with blood donations (1). Hemovigilance programs have now been in existence for about 20 years after being developed in 1993 in France. Although it has emerged as a tool to improve transfusion safety, many countries and centers are still in the development stage and have not yet established functioning hemovig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1516-8484
DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20130045