Thresholds, triggers or requirements-time to look beyond the transfusion trials.

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Anemia of Critical Illness: A Concise Definitive Review in Critical Care.Critical care medicine · 2026
   Review
2. Hospital and Clinician Practice Variation in Cardiac Surgery and Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury.JAMA network open · 2025
   Article
3. Perioperative Trajectory of Haemoglobin, Predictors of Blood Transfusion and Tailoring Targets for Patient Blood Management Interventions: A Single-centre, Retrospective Study of Non-emergent Cardiac Surgery Patients.Romanian journal of anaesthesia and intensive care · 2021
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Restrictive or Liberal Red-Cell Transfusion for Cardiac Surgery.2017

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.