Journal of clinical apheresis
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Transfusion Medicine is a broad discipline that affects the health care of patients from many medical disciplines. Despite the large impact of transfusion therapies on the management of patients with a variety of diseases, there are few clinical trials that evaluate the indications or the effectiveness of transfusion therapies. ⋯ The activities, organization, and scope of the network is described below. Examples of clinical trials currently in the network "pipeline" are briefly summarized as an overview to more detailed presentations given elsewhere in this symposium.