Mortality risk stratification in severely anaemic Jehovah's Witness patients

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Beliaev, A M ^a   Marshall, R J ^b   Smith, W ^a   Windsor, J A ^b  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Jehovah's Witness; Mortality; Risk assessment; Severe anaemia; Treatment refusal

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANEMIA MORTALITY RISK SCORE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FACTOR VIIA; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFECTION; IRON; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PLASMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858729950     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2011.02699.x     Document Type: Article

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