Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Mortality in Trauma Patients: Risk-Stratified Analysis of an Observational Study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Perel, Pablo ^a   Clayton, Tim ^a   Altman, Doug G ^b   Croft, Peter ^c   Douglas, Ian ^a   Hemingway, Harry ^d   Hingorani, Aroon ^d   Morley, Katherine I ^d,e   Riley, Richard ^f   Timmis, Adam ^g   Van der Windt, Danielle ^c   Roberts, Ian ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BREATHING RATE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRECIPITATE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 84903317340     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001664     Document Type: Article

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