Trends in red blood cell transfusion and 30-day mortality among hospitalized patients

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 2678-2686

  Roubinian, Nareg H ^a,b,c   Escobar, Gabriel J ^b   Liu, Vincent ^b   Swain, Bix E ^b   Gardner, Marla N ^b   Kipnis, Patricia ^b   Triulzi, Darrell J ^d   Gottschall, Jerome L ^e   Wu, Yan ^f   Carson, Jeffrey L ^g   Kleinman, Steven H ^h   Murphy, Edward L ^a,c  

^a BLOOD SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Energy Center of Wisconsin   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BLOODLESS CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOODLESS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMORBIDITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INPATIENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 84908489120     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12825     Document Type: Article

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