The association between perioperative allogeneic transfusion volume and postoperative infection in patients following lumbar spine surgery

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 2105-2110

  Woods, Barrett I ^a   Rosario, Bedda L ^a   Chen, Antonia ^a   Waters, Jonathan H ^a   Donaldson, William ^a   Kang, James ^a   Lee, Joon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE ALLOGENEIC RED BLOOD CELL TRANSFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; ALLOGRAFT; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; SPINAL DISEASES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SPINE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOGRAFTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL DISEASES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84893154908     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.00979     Document Type: Article

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