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100			_aMadgwick, K.
240			_aTransfusion Medicine
245			_aA home blood transfusion programme for beta-thalassaemia patients
260			_c1999
500			_aNMUH Staff Publications
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520			_a<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Although home transfusion programmes are relatively common in the USA (Anon, 1990, Home Care in the 1990s. Council on Scientific Affairs. Journal of the American Medical Association, 263, 1241-1244), this type of treatment has only recently been considered in Britain and, where it is in operation, is generally supervised by trained nursing staff or via a hospice. <span class="highlight">North Middlesex</span> Hospital now has 3 years experience of a home transfusion programme operating for beta-thalassaemia major patients, in which relatives are trained and responsible for supervision of the red-cell transfusions at home. For families who request this service, and who are willing and able to undertake it responsibly, the scheme offers the advantages of improved patient comfort, reduced absences from education or employment and reduced hospital bed usage. Patients and their carers express improved satisfaction with the treatment delivered in this way.</span>
700			_aYardumian, A.
856			_uhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10354383
856			_uhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-3148.1999.00190.x/abstract
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