Anemia management program reduces transfusion volumes, incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia, and cost in trauma patients

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-5

  Earley, Angela S ^a   Gracias, Vicente H ^a,d   Haut, Elliott ^c   Sicoutris, Corinna P ^a   Wiebe, Douglas J ^b   Reilly, Patrick M ^a   Schwab, C William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d Division of Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia management program; Blood transfusion; Trauma; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ACIDOSIS; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; NOTE; NUTRITION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RATING SCALE; RESUSCITATION; SPUTUM CULTURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTE; TRAUMATOLOGY;

AGED; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PENNSYLVANIA; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33746257474     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000225925.53583.27     Document Type: Article

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