Deferred donor care in a regional hospital blood center in Ghana.

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Published in Transfusion on January 02, 2008

Authors

Jean-Pierre Allain1, Ohene Opare-Sem, Francis Sarkodie, Rabiatu Rahman, Shirley Owusu-Ofori

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Blood Centre, Long Road, Cambridge, UK. jpa1000@cam.ac.uk

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