Do we need [more] clinical trials in Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy?
This essay introduces a new series of papers to appear in Transfusion and Apheresis Sciences, to follow up clinical trials in the field of hemotherapy and transfusion medicine. This first paper stresses the weakness of such trials but also how difficult it is or may be to initiate clinical trials in this specialty.
EA3064, Faculty of Medicine of Saint-Etienne, University of Lyon, 42023 Saint-Etienne, France; Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, 6 rue Alexandre Cabanel, 75015 Paris, France. Electronic address: ogarraud@ints.fr.
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D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans
Blood components; Clinical trial; Hemotherapy; Transfusion