Association between hospital intraoperative blood transfusion practices for surgical blood loss and hospital surgical mortality rates

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 255, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 708-714

  Wu, Wen Chih ^a,b,c   Trivedi, Amal ^a,c   Friedmann, Peter D ^a,b   Henderson, William G ^d   Smith, Tracy S ^b,e   Poses, Roy M ^b   Uttley, Georgette ^a   Vezeridis, Michael ^e   Eaton, Charles B ^f   Mor, Vincent ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e VA Surgical Quality Improvement Program   (United States)

^f Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862807648     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31824a55b9     Document Type: Article

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