Association of admission hematocrit with 6-month and 1-year mortality in intensive care unit patients

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2148-2159

  Mudumbai, Seshadri C ^a,b,c   Cronkite, Ruth ^a,b,c   Hu, Kirsten U ^a,b,c   Wagner, Todd ^a,b,c   Hayashi, Ko ^a,b,c   Ozanne, Gerard M ^a,b,c   Davies, M Frances ^a,b,c   Heidenreich, Paul ^a,b,c   Bertaccini, Edward ^a,b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 80054761312     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03134.x     Document Type: Article

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