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Review
. 2002 Jul 20;325(7356):143-7.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7356.143.

Blood transfusion medicine

Fiona Regan  1 , Clare Taylor
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Review

Blood transfusion medicine

Fiona Regan et al. BMJ. .
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Figure 1
Checking patient identification details on blood unit against wristband before transfusion
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Figure 2
Mean (SE) proportion of patients undergoing total hip replacement perioperatively transfused with red blood cell units in each of the participating hospitals in Europe, after adjustment for age, sex, preoperative packed cell volume, and blood loss (adapted from McClelland et al (1998)7)
Figure 3
Figure 3
Intraoperative red blood cell salvage
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