Jehovah's Witness Patients Interventions for successful stem cell transplantation without blood product transfusions for hematologic malignancies

摘要

BACKGROUND: Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a religion that prohibits them from accepting blood product transfusions. This refusal makes them a particularly compelling population in the context of hematologic malignancies and stem cell transplantation, because blood product transfusions are a mainstay of supportive treatment.