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Sat 04 Apr 2009Transfusion policy for Jehovah's Witnesses needed, forum told
A SINGLE policy to manage the requirements of Jehovah’s Witness patients should be developed and implemented in all hospitals, a conference on medical consent heard yesterday.
Such a development could benefit patients and practitioners, and assist in the challenge of managing blood loss among Ireland’s increasingly ethnic population, Dr Emer Lawlor of the National Haemovigilance Office said.
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