BACKGROUND: As part of its risk management process, Canadian Blood Services (CBS)
constructed mathematical models of how newly emerging pathogens might affect blood …

Background: Use of blood conservation techniques in elective surgery reduces the risk of
infection and transfusion reactions that result from using allogeneic blood products. We …

Background Anesthesia side effects are almost inevitable in most situations. In order to
optimize the anesthetic experience from the patient's viewpoint, it makes intuitive sense to …

Why is there such controversy and uncertainty over whether to notify recipients of blood
products that may have been contaminated with the infectious agent associated with …

BACKGROUND: As part of its risk management process, Canadian Blood Services (CBS)
constructed mathematical models of how newly emerging pathogens might affect blood …

The blood supply occupies a special place within the provincial public health systems: it is
something that Canadians expect to be safe, well run, and available when needed. In the …

Editorial Page 1 Editorial If ever one needed proof of how diffi- cult it is to formulate health
policy in the absence of hard evidence, the thorny problem of variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease …

If ever one needed proof of how difficult it is to formulate health policy in the absence of hard
evidence, the thorny problem of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is it. And the more costly …

Si l'on a jamais eu besoin d'une preuve de la difficulté que présente la formulation de
politiques sur la santé sans données probantes concrètes, le problème épineux posé par la …