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Haematology (incl blood transfusion)
Protocol
Organ damage in sickle cell disease study (ORDISS): protocol for a longitudinal cohort study based in Ghana

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  • Kofi A Anie Haematology and Sickle Cell Centre, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vivian Paintsil Directorate of Child Health, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ellis Owusu-Dabo Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Daniel Ansong Directorate of Child Health, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana Department of Child Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alex Osei-Akoto Directorate of Child Health, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana Department of Child Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kwaku Ohene-Frempong Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kofi Aikins Amissah Directorate of Child Health, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nicholas Addofoh Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ezekiel Bonwin Ackah Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Amma Twumwa Owusu-Ansah Center for Translational and International Hematology, Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Solomon Fiifi Ofori-Acquah Center for Translational and International Hematology, Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Kofi A Anie; kofi.anie{at}nhs.net
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Citation

Anie KA, Paintsil V, Owusu-Dabo E, et al
Organ damage in sickle cell disease study (ORDISS): protocol for a longitudinal cohort study based in Ghana
BMJ Open 2017;7:e016727. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016727

Publication history

  • Received March 6, 2017
  • Revised June 1, 2017
  • Accepted July 3, 2017
  • First published August 28, 2017.
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July 23, 2019
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