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SUBMITTER: Elwood NR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6097952 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Elwood Nathan R NR Martin Allison N AN Turrentine Florence E FE Jones R Scott RS Zaydfudim Victor M VM
American journal of surgery 20180217 3
<h4>Background</h4>This study aims to test associations between perioperative blood transfusion and postoperative morbidity and mortality after major abdominal operations.<h4>Methods</h4>The 2014 ACS NSQIP dataset was queried for all patients who underwent one of the ten major abdominal operations. Separate multivariable regression models, were developed to evaluate the independent effects of perioperative blood transfusion on morbidity and mortality.<h4>Results</h4>Of 48,854 patients in the stu ...[more]