The relationship of blood product ratio to mortality: Survival benefit or survival bias?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 358-362

  Snyder, Christopher W ^a   Weinberg, Jordan A ^a   McGwin Jr , Gerald ^b   Melton, Sherry M ^a   George, Richard L ^a   Reiff, Donald A ^a   Cross, James M ^a   Hubbard Brown, Jennifer ^c   Rue III, Loring W ^a   Kerby, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FFP; Hemostatic resuscitation; Plasma; Survival bias; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; METHODOLOGY; PLASMA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PLASMA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651146608     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318196c3ac     Document Type: Article

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