The association of preoperative anemia and perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion with the risk of surgical site infection

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1964-1970

  Weber, Walter P ^a   Zwahlen, Marcel ^a   Reck, Stefan ^a   Misteli, Heidi ^a   Rosenthal, Rachel ^a   Buser, Andreas S ^a   Kaufmann, Mark ^a   Oertli, Daniel ^a   Widmer, Andreas F ^a   Marti, Walter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LEUKAPHERESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL SITE INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249163799     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02204.x     Document Type: Article

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