Patient Blood Management improves outcome in oncologic surgery

Abstract Background Patient Blood Management (PBM) is a systematic quality improving clinical model to reduce anemia and avoid transfusions in all kinds of clinical settings. Here, we investigated the potential of PBM in oncologic surgery and hypothesized that PBM improves 2-year overall survival (O...

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Main Authors: Vivienne Keding, Kai Zacharowski, Wolf O. Bechstein, Patrick Meybohm, Andreas A. Schnitzbauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-08-01
Series:World Journal of Surgical Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12957-018-1456-9