Decreased red blood cell use and mortality in hospitalized patients

JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Aug;174(8):1405-7. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.2889.

Authors

Nareg H Roubinian¹, Gabriel J Escobar², Vincent Liu², Marla N Gardner², Jeffrey L Carson³, Steven H Kleinman⁴, Edward L Murphy⁵; NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study (REDS-III)

Collaborators

NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study (REDS-III):
A E Mast, J L Gottschall, D J Triulzi, J E Kiss, E L Murphy, E W Fiebig, E L Snyder, R G Cable, D J Brambilla, M T Sullivan, M P Busch, P J Norris, R Y Dodd, S H Kleinman, S A Glynn, A M Cristman

Affiliations

¹ Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California.
² Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland.
³ Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
⁴ University of British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ University of California, San Francisco.

No abstract available

Publication types

Observational Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Anemia / therapy*
Bloodless Medical and Surgical Procedures / trends*
Cohort Studies
Databases, Factual
Erythrocyte Transfusion / trends*
Female
Hospitalization*
Humans
Male
Mortality / trends*
Retrospective Studies

Associated data

ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT01425359

Grants and funding