Effect of short-term vs. Long-term blood storage on mortality after transfusion

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 375, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 1937-1945

  Heddle, Nancy M ^a,b,c   Cook, Richard J ^b,f   Arnold, Donald M ^a,b,c   Liu, Yang ^a,b   Barty, Rebecca ^a,b   Crowther, Mark A ^a,b   Devereaux, P J ^a,b,d   Hirsh, Jack ^a   Warkentin, Theodore E ^a,b   Webert, Kathryn E ^b,c   Roxby, David ^g   Sobieraj Teague, Magdalena ^g   Kurz, Andrea ^a,h   Sessler, Daniel I ^h   Figueroa, Priscilla ⁱ   Ellis, Martin ^j   Eikelboom, John W ^a,d,e  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^g FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h Anesthesiology Institute   (United States)

ⁱ LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP A; BLOOD GROUP O; BLOOD STORAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESERVATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84995550165     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1609014     Document Type: Article

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