Patient Blood Management is Associated with a Substantial Reduction of Red Blood Cell Utilization and Safe for Patient's Outcome: A Prospective, Multicenter Cohort Study with a Noninferiority Design

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 203-211

  Meybohm, Patrick ^a   Herrmann, Eva ^b   Steinbicker, Andrea U ^c   Wittmann, Maria ^d   Gruenewald, Matthias ^e   Fischer, Dania ^a   Baumgarten, Georg ^d   Renner, Jochen ^e   Van Aken, Hugo K ^c   Weber, Christian F ^a   Mueller, Markus M ^f   Geisen, Christof ^f   Rey, Julia ^b   Bon, Dimitra ^b   Hintereder, Gudrun ^a   Choorapoikayil, Suma ^a   Oldenburg, Johannes ^g   Brockmann, Christian ^b   Geissler, Raoul G ^h   Seifried, Erhard ^f   Zacharowski, Kai ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

anemia; clinical outcome; patient blood management; patient safety; perioperative care; red blood cell transfusion

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT BLOOD MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANEMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GERMANY; METABOLISM; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

ANEMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONTROLLED BEFORE-AFTER STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84966349159     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001747     Document Type: Article

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