title: A perception of transfusion safety and risks.
abstract: Transfusion therapy is today safer than ever. However, administration of homologous transfusions still has a number of different, even serious potential hazards. Therefore, transfusion therapy should only be given when the reasons for it are clear, its benefits outweigh the hazards, and the patient has accepted them after being well informed about them.
authors.affiliation: Croatian Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grgicević
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vuk
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D065227:Transfusion Reaction