Influence of Clinical and Economical Factors on the Expert Rating of Appropriateness of Preoperative Use of Recombinant Erythropoietin in Elective Orthopedic Surgery Patients

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 122-130

  Taffé, Patrick ^b   Burnand, Bernard ^b   Wietlisbach, Vincent ^b   Vader, John Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Blood supply; Erythropoietin; Orthopedic surgery; Resources constraint

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG INDICATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL EXPERT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMEDICATION; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 1642369386     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X04263153     Document Type: Article

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