Long-Term Survival in The Intensive Care Unit After Erythrocyte Blood Transfusion

Milo Engoren, MD, and Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren, RN, PhD, ACNS-BC

Learning Objectives - At the completion of this program, the learner will be able to:

Objective 1:	Describe the effect of erythrocyte blood transfusion in the intensive care unit on long-term survivability.
Objective 2:	Discuss the differences between the Cox proportional hazard modeling and Kaplan-Meier survival curve.
Objective 3:	Integrate findings of the research study into nursing practice in the ICU.

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Long-Term Survival in The Intensive Care Unit After Erythrocyte Blood Transfusion

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Long-Term Survival in the Intensive Care Unit after Erythrocyte Blood Transfusion

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