Prevalence of survivor bias in observational studies on fresh frozen plasma:Erythrocyte ratios in trauma requiring massive transfusion

Anesthesiology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 716-728

  Ho, Anthony M H ^a   Dion, Peter W ^b   Yeung, Janice H H ^c   Holcomb, John B ^d   Critchley, Lester A H ^a   Ng, Calvin S H ^a   Karmakar, Manoj K ^a   Cheung, Chi W ^e   Rainer, Timothy H ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b St Catharines General Site   (Canada)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; PLASMA; PREVALENCE; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84859078843     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318245c47b     Document Type: Review

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