Red blood cell transfusion and mortality

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2996-2997

  Pettilä, Ville ^a   Nichol, Alistair D ^a,b   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a   Cooper, David J ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73449130823     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181b4a0a5     Document Type: Letter

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