Pediatric red blood cell transfusions increase resource use.

Goodman, Allyson M; Pollack, Murray M; Patel, Kantilal M; Luban, Naomi L C

Goodman, Allyson M; Pollack, Murray M; Patel, Kantilal M; Luban, Naomi L C.

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Goodman AM; Divisions of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Research Institute, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20010, USA.

J Pediatr ; 142(2): 123-7, 2003 Feb.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12584531

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Anemia/therapy; Critical Illness/therapy; Erythrocyte Transfusion/adverse effects; Erythrocyte Transfusion/statistics & numerical data; Health Resources/statistics & numerical data; Intensive Care Units, Pediatric/statistics & numerical data; Pediatrics/statistics & numerical data; Practice Patterns, Physicians'/statistics & numerical data; Anemia/blood; Anemia/etiology; Anemia/mortality; Child; Child, Preschool; Critical Illness/mortality; Delaware/epidemiology; District of Columbia/epidemiology; Health Services Research; Hemoglobins/analysis; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Length of Stay/statistics & numerical data; Maryland/epidemiology; New Jersey/epidemiology; Oxygen Inhalation Therapy/statistics & numerical data; Patient Selection; Regression Analysis; Respiration, Artificial/statistics & numerical data; Retrospective Studies; Severity of Illness Index

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Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pediatrics / Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Intensive Care Units, Pediatric / Critical Illness / Erythrocyte Transfusion / Health Resources / Anemia Type of study: Diagnostic_studies / Etiology_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Child / Child, preschool / Humans Country/Region as subject: America do norte Language: En Journal: J Pediatr Year: 2003 Type: Article Affiliation country: United States

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