Rapid Cost Increases for Blood Products Cause Clinical Pathology Labs to Seek Solutions

Innovative hospital labs are creating collaborative project teams to help clinicians improve their utilization of blood products If there is a guaranteed budget buster for clinical pathology laboratories in the United States, it is the steady and rapid growth in the cost of blood products. Some hospital laboratories report that the basic cost of blood products has doubled in recent years! For this reason, transfusion medicine and blood banking functions are now a high-profile target for...
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