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- Title
The approach to the patient who refuses blood transfusion.
- Authors
Rogers, David M.; Crookston, Kendall P.
- Abstract
The article describes practical approach to caring for patients who refuse blood transfusion. The important aspects of the approach include the risks and benefits of transfusion, understanding the patient, access to available resources, and alternatives to blood products. Discussing the approach to the patient may prove beneficial to health-care practitioners and physicians in training, as well as to the patient.
- Subjects
BLOOD transfusion; PATIENTS; BLOOD products; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; HEALTH counseling; PATIENT education
- Publication
Transfusion, 2006, Vol 46, Issue 9, p1471
- ISSN
0041-1132
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00947.x