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Iron supplementation to treat anaemia in adult critical care patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Anaemia affects 60-80 % of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). Allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusions remain the mainstay of treatment for anaemia but are associated with risks and are costly. Our objective was to assess the efficacy and safety of iron supplementation by any route, in anaemic patients in adult ICUs.Electronic databases (CENTRAL, MEDLINE, EMBASE) were searched through March 2016 for randomized controlled trials (RCT)s comparing iron by any route with placeb...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s13054-016-1486-z
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central
- Journal:
- Critical Care More from this journal
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 306
- Publication date:
- 2016-09-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-09-13
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1466-609X
- ISSN:
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1364-8535
- Pmid:
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27681259
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English
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pubs:648210
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- 2016
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- Copyright © 2016 The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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