Storage time of red blood cells and mortality of transfusion recipients

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-43

  Middelburg, Rutger A ^a,b   Van de Watering, Leo M G ^a,b   Briët, Ernest ^a,b   Van der Bom, Johanna G ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SANQUIN RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GROUP ANTIGENS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CHILD; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ERYTHROCYTE AGING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872272957     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: 15329496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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