Open AccessThe Association Between ABO Blood Type and Mortality Among Severely Injured Trauma Patients
Author(s) -
Russell Griffin,
Jan O. Jansen,
Patrick Bosarge,
Marisa B. Marques,
Jeffrey D. Kerby
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.095
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1540-0514
pISSN - 1073-2322
DOI - 10.1097/shk.0000000000001497
Subject(s) - medicine , abo blood group system , odds ratio , blood type (non human) , injury severity score , trauma center , logistic regression , population , confidence interval , cohort study , retrospective cohort study , poison control , injury prevention , emergency medicine , environmental health
Prior research has reported an association among trauma patients between blood type O and adverse events. More recently, another study reported that severely injured trauma patients of mostly O Rh positive blood type were more likely to die.