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Postoperative transfusions are linked to adverse outcomes after noncardiac surgery.
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May warrant restrictive postoperative transfusion practices in noncardiac surgery; hypothesis-generating pending randomized confirmation.
Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
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Xue et al. (2015) studied this question. Postoperative transfusions are associated with adverse outcomes in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery.
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