Blood Shortages Planning in Canada: The National Emergency Blood Management Committee Experience During the First 6 months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview

Journal Transfusion

Specialty Hematology

Date 2021 Sep 7

PMID 34490650

Citations 7

Authors

Oksana Prokopchuk-Gauk

Tanya Petraszko

Susan Nahirniak

Cheryl Doncaster

Isra Levy

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