Effect of "old" versus "fresh" transfused red blood cells on patients' outcome: probably more complex than appears.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Investigation of Red Blood Cells by Atomic Force Microscopy.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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2. A portable system for processing donated whole blood into high quality components without centrifugation.PloS one · 2018
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3. Blood and Blood Components: From Similarities to Differences.Frontiers in medicine · 2018
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4. The Role of the Immunological Synapse in Differential Effects of APC Subsets in Alloimmunization to Fresh, Non-stored RBCs.Frontiers in immunology · 2018
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5. The role of policy in red blood cell storage and transfusion in children.Pediatric research · 2017
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Corrections and comments

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  Effect of Short-Term vs. Long-Term Blood Storage on Mortality after Transfusion.2016

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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