Transfusion, not just injury severity, leads to posttrauma infection: A matched cohort study

American Surgeon

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 307-312

  Sadjadi, Javid ^a,b   Cureton, Elizabeth L ^a   Twomey, Patrick ^a   Victorino, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRECIPITATE; EMPYEMA; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION RISK; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CALIFORNIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 65549098141     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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