TY  - JOUR
T1  - STorage age of red blood cells for transfusion of premature infants—reply
AU  - Fergusson D, Tinmouth A
Y1  - 2013/02/13
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.177442
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 544
EP  - 545
VL  - 309
IS  - 6
N2  - 
The potential interaction between transfusion thresholds and storage age is intriguing and deserves further inquiry. We purposely chose a standard care group in the ARIPI trial to reflect current local transfusion and blood bank practice. As such, there was some variability in transfusion threshold practice between sites and a post hoc analysis did not identify appreciable differences in our primary outcome from the more conservative sites compared with the more liberal sites (unadjusted range of mean pretransfusion episode hemoglobin: 8.7-10.7 g/dL).

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.177442
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.177442
ER  -