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.
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2012-01
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Abstract
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
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