A Programmatic Approach to Patient Blood Management – reducing transfusions and improving patient outcomes

In July 2008, the Western Australia (WA) Department of Health embarked on a landmark 5-year project to implement a sustainable comprehensive health-system-wide Patient Blood Management Program. Fundamentally, it was a quality and safety initiative, which also had profound resource and economic impli...

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Main Authors: Farmer, Shannon, Trentino, K., Hofmann, Axel, Semmens, James, Mukhtar, Syed Aqif, Prosser, G., Hamdorf, J., Rao, S., Leahy, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Bentham Science 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15734