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The Transfused Population of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Its Mortality
Author(s) -
Whyte Gordon S.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
vox sanguinis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1423-0410
pISSN - 0042-9007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1988.tb01618.x
Subject(s) - medicine , population , intensive care medicine , surgery , environmental health
. All 367 recipients and 1,385 donations transfused over a 40‐day period were traced and compared by sex, age and discharge diagnosis with the 5,955 concurrent discharges from all general and obstetric hospitals in the area. 6% of discharged patients had been transfused. 21% of transfused patients were dead within 1 year, and at least 30% will die within 5 years. 228 donations of platelet concentrates were required for 7 recipients, 6 of whom died within 2 years. The mortality of blood recipients is overestimated if tracked from donors of multiple components.