Blood transfusions: Good or bad?: Confounding by indication, an underestimated problem in clinical transfusion research

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1181-1183

  Middelburg, Rutger A ^a,b   Van De Watering, Leo M G ^a,b   Van Der Bom, Johanna G ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Sanquin Blood Bank South West Region ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SHORT SURVEY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS;

EID: 77953105992     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02675.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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