STROBE-compliant article: Blood transfusions within the first 24 hours of hospitalization did not impact mortality among patients with severe sepsis

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Hsu, Chih Yi ^a   Liu, Su Hsun ^a,b   Chao, Chung Hsien ^a   Chan, Yi Lin ^a   Tsai, Tsung Cheng ^a   Chen, Li Min ^a   Wu, Chin Chieh ^a   Chen, Kuan Fu ^a,c  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VITAL SIGN; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84957916785     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000002601     Document Type: Article

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