The informed consent to blood transfusion is a patient centered care where the health care provider is ethically obliged and legally compelled to disclose the details, alternatives and consequences of a procedure such as blood donation or transfusion and obtain from the patient a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i730346
Joseph Aondowase Orkuma, Julie Ochaka Egesie, Simji Samuel Gomerep & Ejele Osaikhuemen Adebayo·Asian Hematology Research Journal·2018
Background: Global targets of providing safe blood available universally by 2020 as well as that seeking to eliminate HIV transmission by 2030 has compelled many hospital-based blood banks to employ relevant strategies in their transfusion practice towards realizing these targets...
Background: Clinical transfusion process (CTP) in Africa is an age long practice yearning for scientifically sound, evidence-based findings to address existent challenges of quality. Objective: To review relevant aspects of hospital-based transfusion practices in Africa wherein p...
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Research Article10.9734/IBRR/2017/32666
Joseph Aondowase Orkuma, Simji Samuel Gomerep, Julie Ochaka Egesie, Jennifer Hembadoon Orkuma, Adebayo Osaikhume Ejele, Joseph Aondowase Ngbea, Raymond Akpobome Vhriterhire & Anthony Michael Onoja·Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science·2015
Background: Voluntary non-remunerated blood donors (VNRBD) that provide safe blood needed to save lives and improve health or used as a necessary adjunct to emerging modern Medicare are scarce in Nigeria. Aim: To assess the contribution of donor socio-demographics characteristics...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18263
Context: Cytology is a simple, fast, low cost, minimally invasive and sensitive technique for evaluating cells sampled from lesions in the body. It is an aspect of pathology service at its fledgling stage in most institutions in sub-Saharan African countries. Aims: This study exa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/29774