10.26180/5e8e843b35039
ADAM HARRY IRVING
ADAM HARRY
IRVING
Essays on the Economics of Blood
Monash University
2020
Blood donation
Blood transfusion
Health Economics
2020-04-09 02:11:05
Thesis
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Essays_on_the_Economics_of_Blood/12101550
This thesis examines four research questions relating to the economics of blood including an assessment of interventions for increasing donations, whether the age of blood at transfusion impacts on costs and quality of life, whether national clinical guidelines designed to reduce unnecessary transfusions were effective in cardiac surgery and if the guidelines reduced variation in care.