Concerns of patients, MDs are transforming transfusion medicine.
Fear of HIV and AIDS has been the driving force in reducing physicians' use of blood and blood products. Nancy Robb interviewed doctors across the country to determine steps they are taking to lower the number of transfusions and discovered that transfusion medicine in Canada has undergone a sea change.
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D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001804:Blood Transfusion, Autologous / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002170:Canada; D003625:Data Collection; D006438:Hemodilution; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D065227:Transfusion Reaction