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Comment
. 2016 Mar;14(2):123-5.
doi: 10.2450/2016.0008-16.

Transfusion thresholds and beyond

Giancarlo M Liumbruno  1 , Stefania Vaglio  1   2 , Gianni Biancofiore  3 , Giuseppe Marano  1 , Carlo Mengoli  4 , Massimo Franchini  5
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Comment

Transfusion thresholds and beyond

Giancarlo M Liumbruno et al. Blood Transfus. 2016 Mar.
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Forest-plot of all-cause mortality in peri-operative patients: risk ratio calculation (data extracted from the meta-analysis by Fominskiy et al.10). Four studies did not record events and were excluded from analysis. Statistical analysis performed using Stata 14.1 (StataCorp, College Station, TX, USA). RR: relative risk; CI: confidence interval.
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