Multimodal Patient Blood Management Program Based on a Three-pillar Strategy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 269, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 794-804

  Althoff, Friederike C ^a   Neb, Holger ^a   Herrmann, Eva ^b   Trentino, Kevin M ^c   Vernich, Lee ^d   Füllenbach, Christoph ^a   Freedman, John ^e   Waters, Jonathan H ^f   Farmer, Shannon ^g,h   Leahy, Michael F ⁱ   Zacharowski, Kai ^a   Meybohm, Patrick ^a   Choorapoikayil, Suma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c University of Western   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^h CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

blood transfusion; complication rate; effectiveness; mortality; Patient Blood Management

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; ERYTHROCYTE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY RATE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT BLOOD MANAGEMENT PROGRAM; PATIENT CARE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VASCULAR SURGERY; COMPLICATION; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

ANEMIA; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 85064853100     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003095     Document Type: Article

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