Diagnostic blood loss from phlebotomy and hospital-acquired anemia during acute myocardial infarction.

Adam C. Salisbury; Kimberly J. Reid; Karen P. Alexander; Frederick A. Masoudi; Sue-Min Lai; Paul S. Chan; Richard G. Bach; Tracy Y. Wang; John A. Spertus; Mikhail Kosiborod

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Diagnostic blood loss from phlebotomy and hospital-acquired anemia during acute myocardial infarction.

August 24, 2011

Salisbury AC, Reid KJ, Alexander KP, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(18):1646-53.

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This study discovered that blood loss from greater use of phlebotomy was independently associated with hospital-acquired anemia. An accompanying editorial [see additional link below] discusses this hazard of hospitalization in the context of more than just never events.

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