Improved outcomes and reduced costs associated with a health-system-wide patient blood management program: a retrospective observational study in four major adult tertiary-care hospitals

Patient Blood Management is Associated With a Substantial Reduction of Red Blood Cell Utilization and Safe for Patientʼs Outcome

(2016) Patrick Meybohm et al.   ANNALS OF SURGERY

Assessing the Rationale and Effectiveness of Frozen Plasma Transfusions

(2016) Alan Tinmouth   HEMATOLOGY-ONCOLOGY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

A Patient Blood Management Program in Prosthetic Joint Arthroplasty Decreases Blood Use and Improves Outcomes

(2016) Terrence J. Loftus et al.   JOURNAL OF ARTHROPLASTY

Interactive patient blood management dashboards used in Western Australia

(2016) Kevin M. Trentino et al.   TRANSFUSION

Activity-based costs of plasma transfusions in medical and surgical inpatients at a US hospital

(2016) A. Shander et al.   VOX SANGUINIS

Patient blood management in cardiac surgery results in fewer transfusions and better outcome

(2015) Irwin Gross et al.   TRANSFUSION

Harms associated with single unit perioperative transfusion: retrospective population based analysis

(2015) E. L. Whitlock et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Harms associated with single unit perioperative transfusion: retrospective population based analysis

(2015) E. L. Whitlock et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Risks associated with red blood cell transfusion in the trauma population, a meta-analysis

(2014) Sunil V Patel et al.   INJURY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CARE OF THE INJURED

Health Care–Associated Infection After Red Blood Cell Transfusion

(2014) Jeffrey M. Rohde et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Restrictive blood transfusion practices are associated with improved patient outcomes

(2014) Lawrence T. Goodnough et al.   TRANSFUSION

Increased hospital costs associated with red blood cell transfusion

(2014) Kevin M. Trentino et al.   TRANSFUSION

Impact of More Restrictive Blood Transfusion Strategies on Clinical Outcomes: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review

(2013) Shelley R. Salpeter et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Blood Transfusion and Infection After Cardiac Surgery

(2013) Keith A. Horvath et al.   ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY

Transfusion of 1 and 2 Units of Red Blood Cells Is Associated With Increased Morbidity and Mortality

(2013) Gaetano Paone et al.   ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY

Blood product conservation is associated with improved outcomes and reduced costs after cardiac surgery

(2013) Damien J. LaPar et al.   JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Blood management: transfusion medicine comes of age

(2013) Lawrence T Goodnough   LANCET

Challenges in the management of the blood supply

(2013) Lorna M Williamson et al.   LANCET

Concepts of blood transfusion in adults

(2013) Lawrence T Goodnough et al.   LANCET

Alternatives to blood transfusion

(2013) Donat R Spahn et al.   LANCET

Transfusion Strategies for Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

(2013) Càndid Villanueva et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

A pragmatic approach to embedding patient blood management in a tertiary hospital

(2013) Michael F. Leahy et al.   TRANSFUSION

Surgical Outcomes and Transfusion of Minimal Amounts of Blood in the Operating Room

(2012) Victor A. Ferraris   ARCHIVES OF SURGERY

Effect of a patient blood management programme on preoperative anaemia, transfusion rate, and outcome after primary hip or knee arthroplasty: a quality improvement cycle † ‡

(2012) A. Kotzé et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA

Blood transfusion and cancer surgery outcomes: A continued reason for concern

(2012) Waddah B. Al-Refaie et al.   SURGERY

The cost of blood transfusion in Western Europe as estimated from six studies

(2012) Ivo Abraham et al.   TRANSFUSION

What is really dangerous: anaemia or transfusion?

(2011) A. Shander et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA

Preoperative predicted risk does not fully explain the association between red blood cell transfusion and mortality in coronary artery bypass grafting

(2011) Gaetano Paone et al.   JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Five Drivers Shifting the Paradigm from Product-Focused Transfusion Practice to Patient Blood Management

(2011) A. Hofmann et al.   ONCOLOGIST

Patient blood management: a growing challenge and opportunity

(2011) Jonathan H. Waters et al.   TRANSFUSION

Adverse Blood Transfusion Outcomes: Establishing Causation

(2011) James P. Isbister et al.   TRANSFUSION MEDICINE REVIEWS

The Impact of Blood Conservation on Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery: Is It Safe and Effective?

(2010) David M. Moskowitz et al.   ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY

Blood Still Kills: Six Strategies to Further Reduce Allogeneic Blood Transfusion-Related Mortality

(2010) Eleftherios C. Vamvakas et al.   TRANSFUSION MEDICINE REVIEWS

Intraoperative Transfusion of 1 U to 2 U Packed Red Blood Cells Is Associated with Increased 30-Day Mortality, Surgical-Site Infection, Pneumonia, and Sepsis in General Surgery Patients

(2009) Andrew C. Bernard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Activity-based costs of blood transfusions in surgical patients at four hospitals

(2009) Aryeh Shander et al.   TRANSFUSION

Blood Transfusions, Thrombosis, and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Cancer

(2008) Alok A. Khorana et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Efficacy of red blood cell transfusion in the critically ill: A systematic review of the literature*

(2008) Paul E. Marik et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

The silent risks of blood transfusion

(2008) James Rawn   Current Opinion in Anesthesiology