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Background and objectives
The key first step for a safe blood transfusion is patient registration for identification and linking to past medical and transfusion history. In Canada, any deviation from standard operating procedures in transfusion is an error voluntarily reportable to a national database (Transfusion Error Surveillance System [TESS]). We used this database to characterize the subset...
In endemic areas, the burden of malaria and anaemia converge together upon children, with severe malarial anaemia (SMA) accounting disproportionately for demands on limited blood supplies. The attributable morbidity and mortality from SMA remain high, and improved outcomes hinge in part on the timeliness, sufficiency and safety of transfusion support. The pathogenesis of SMA is complex, and depreciation...
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