Blood transfusion: patient identification and empowerment.
Positive patient identification is pivotal to several steps of the transfusion process; it is integral to ensuring that the correct blood is given to the correct patient. If patient misidentification occurs, this has potentially fatal consequences for patients. Historically patient involvement in he...
| Published in: | British Journal of Nursing Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 138 - 142 |
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| Format: | review Journal Article |
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Mark Allen Holdings Limited
2/11/2016
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