Duration: 17 minutes
Dr. Aaron Tobian reviews a cost-effectiveness study highlighting the health and financial implications of four alternative antigen matching strategies in a chronically transfused patient population often associated with extensive healthcare utilization and high lifetime costs. He examines the impact of increasing healthcare costs in transfusion medicine and the need for cost-effective alternative strategies to reduce alloimmunization.
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Aaron Tobian, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology, Medicine and Epidemiology; Director, Transfusion Medicine - The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
