Safety and effectiveness of a Patient Blood Management (PBM) program in surgical patients - The study design for a multi-centre prospective epidemiologic non-inferiority trial

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Meybohm, Patrick ^a   Fischer, Dania Patricia ^a   Geisen, Christof ^b   Müller, Markus Matthias ^b   Weber, Christian Friedrich ^a   Herrmann, Eva ^a   Steffen, Björn ^a   Seifried, Erhard ^b   Zacharowski, Kai ^a   Bon, Dimitra ^a   Hoeft, Andreas ^c   Scholz, Jens ^c,d   Broch, Ole ^d   Gruenewald, Matthias ^d   Rey, Julia ^a   Nussbaumer, Judith ^a   Baumgarten, Georg ^c   Wittmann, Maria ^c   Boehm, Olaf ^c   Oldenburg, Johannes ^c   Renner, Jochen ^d   Steinbicker, Andrea ^e   Van Aken, Hugo ^e   Raic, Jessica ^a   Kessler, Florian ^c   Bankewitz, Carla ^c   Struck, Rafael ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Clinical outcome; Patient blood management; Patient safety; Perioperative care; Red blood cell transfusion practice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84988589272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-014-0576-3     Document Type: Article

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