A therapeutic-only versus prophylactic platelet transfusion strategy for preventing bleeding in patients with haematological disorders after chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Estcourt, Lise J ^a   Crighton, Gemma L ^b   Wood, Erica M ^c   Stanworth, Simon ^a   Trivella, Marialena ^d   Doree, Carolyn ^a   Tinmouth, Alan ^e   Murphy, Michael F ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLATELET COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

EID: 85041864299     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010981     Document Type: Article

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