BMJ : British medical journal
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Effects of transfusion with red cells filtered to remove leucocytes: randomised controlled trial in patients undergoing major surgery.
To compare postoperative complications in patients undergoing major surgery who received non-filtered or filtered red blood cell transfusions. ⋯ The use of filtered transfusions in some types of major surgery may reduce the length of hospital stay and the incidence of postoperative multi-organ failure.
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Ageing of the population brings the possibility of increased burdens for acute hospital services because of the marked increase in many common diseases with age. We aimed to examine the relation between age and use of acute services in hospitals in the period before death in a national sample of deaths in hospital. ⋯ The average number of bed days spent in hospital in the period before death does not increase with increasing age.