Blood transfusion during acute myocardial infarction: Association with mortality and variability across hospitals

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 811-819

  Salisbury, Adam C ^a,b   Reid, Kimberly J ^a   Marso, Steven P ^a,b   Amin, Amit P ^c   Alexander, Karen P ^d   Wang, Tracy Y ^d   Spertus, John A ^a,b   Kosiborod, Mikhail ^a,b  

^a SAINT LUKE S MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; anemia; mortality; transfusion; variability

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ANEMIA; MORTALITY; TRANSFUSION; VARIABILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907952970     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.05.040     Document Type: Article

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