Enhancing patient blood management: a long-term FOCUS

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¹ Transfusion Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: pness@jhmi.edu.
² Johns Hopkins Health System Blood Management Program, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Paul M Ness et al. Lancet. 2015.

. 2015 Mar 28;385(9974):1157-9.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62344-8. Epub 2014 Dec 9.

¹ Transfusion Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: pness@jhmi.edu.
² Johns Hopkins Health System Blood Management Program, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Liberal versus restrictive blood transfusion strategy: 3-year survival and cause of death results from the FOCUS randomised controlled trial.
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