Revisiting transfusion practices in critically ill patients.

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Published in Crit Care Med on January 01, 2005

Authors

Paul C Hébert1, Dean A Fergusson, David Stather, Lauralyn McIntyre, Claudio Martin, Steve Doucette, Morris Blajchman, Ian D Graham, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Transfusion and Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa, 501 Smyth Road, Box 201, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L6, Canada.

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