A novel allocation strategy for blood transfusions: investigating the tradeoff between the age and availability of transfused blood

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Atkinson, Michael P.
Fontaine, Magali J.
Goodnough, Lawrence T.
Wein, Lawrence M.
Date
2012-01Metadata
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Recent studies show that transfusing
older blood may lead to increased mortality. This raises
the issue of whether transfusing fresher blood can be
achieved without jeopardizing blood availability.
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03239.x