Mortality and morbidity in patients with very low postoperative Hb levels who decline blood transfusion

Transfusion

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 812-818

  Carson, Jeffrey L ^a,b,c   Noveck, Helaine ^a,b,c   Berlin, Jesse A ^a,b,c   Gould, Steven A ^a,b,c  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Northfield Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0036654548     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2002.00123.x     Document Type: Article

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