Do liberal blood transfusions cause more harm than good?

Guidelines and evidence from randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses increasingly support restrictive blood transfusion, but it is being implemented only slowly, explain Lawrence Tim Goodnough and Michael Murphy. They argue that electronic systems for clinical decision support could improve b...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ (Online) 2014-12, Vol.349 (dec05 3), p.g6897-g6897
Hauptverfasser:	Goodnough, Lawrence Tim, Murphy, Michael F
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ANALYSIS Audits Blood Blood platelets Blood Preservation - standards Blood Safety - standards Blood Transfusion - methods Blood Transfusion - statistics & numerical data Blood transfusions Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Decision Support Techniques Dengue fever Forecasting Hematology Hepatitis Hospital costs Humans Meta-Analysis as Topic Patients Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Risk Factors Surgery Transfusion Reaction Tropical diseases Unnecessary Procedures - adverse effects Unnecessary Procedures - methods Unnecessary Procedures - statistics & numerical data Viruses West Nile virus
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Zusammenfassung:	Guidelines and evidence from randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses increasingly support restrictive blood transfusion, but it is being implemented only slowly, explain Lawrence Tim Goodnough and Michael Murphy. They argue that electronic systems for clinical decision support could improve blood use
ISSN:	0959-8138 1756-1833 1756-1833
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.g6897