Large Variation in Blood Transfusion Use after Colorectal Resection: A Call to Action

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 411-418

  Aquina, Christopher T ^a   Blumberg, Neil ^a   Probst, Christian P ^a   Becerra, Adan Z ^a   Hensley, Bradley J ^a   Noyes, Katia ^a   Monson, John R T ^a   Fleming, Fergal J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Colorectal surgery; Health services research; Postoperative complications

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUM; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PROPENSITY SCORE; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84964562289     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000000588     Document Type: Article

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