title: When less is more: cost-containment in transfusion medicine.
abstract: The drive to contain the rising cost of medical care provides numerous challenges to blood bankers. Not the least of these is the opportunity to improve quality of care while reducing the cost thereof. This paper explores various cost-reduction strategies, focusing primarily on those applicable to small and medium-sized transfusion services, and demonstrates methods by which they can be implemented to yield improved patient care.
authors.affiliation: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson 39216, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Petrides
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D003363:Cost Control; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D065227:Transfusion Reaction