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Introduction of national guidelines for restrictive blood transfusion threshold for hip fracture patients––a consecutive cohort study based on complete follow-up in national databases

BACKGROUND: Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that a restrictive red blood cell (RBC) transfusion strategy lowers transfusion frequency without affecting mortality. However, the external validity of these trials has not been tested in a large cohort. The purpose was to estimate the effe...

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Autores principales: Viberg, Bjarke, Gundtoft, Per Hviid, Schønnemann, Jesper, Pedersen, Lasse, Andersen, Lis Røhl, Titlestad, Kjell, Madsen, Carsten Fladmose, Lauritsen, Jens, Overgaard, Søren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29776419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-018-0828-8