The effect of age and clinical circumstances on the outcome of red blood cell transfusion in critically ill patients

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Dejam, Andre ^a   Malley, Brian E ^b,c   Feng, Mengling ^b,f   Cismondi, Federico ^b   Park, Shinhyuk ^b   Samani, Saira ^d   Samani, Zahra A ^e   Pinto, Duane S ^a   Celi, Leo A ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BEAUMONT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^f INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIAC PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY CARE UNIT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANEMIA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANEMIA; CRITICAL CARE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84908147280     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-014-0487-z     Document Type: Article

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