Blood Safety
"Blood Safety" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The degree to which the blood supply for BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS is free of harmful substances or infectious agents, and properly typed and crossmatched (BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING) to insure serological compatibility between BLOOD DONORS and recipients.
| Descriptor ID |
D058731
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.792.833.230.500 E05.760.833.230.500 N06.850.780.200.450.325
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blood Safety" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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McCullough J, Goldfinger D, Gorlin J, Riley WJ, Sandhu H, Stowell C, Ward D, Clay M, Pulkrabek S, Chrebtow V, Stassinopoulos A. Cost implications of implementation of pathogen-inactivated platelets. Transfusion. 2015 Oct; 55(10):2312-20.