Restrictive or Liberal Red-Cell Transfusion for Cardiac Surgery

Restrictive or Liberal Red-Cell Transfusion for Cardiac Surgery

In patients undergoing cardiac surgery who were at moderate-to-high risk for death, a restrictive strategy regarding red-cell transfusion was noninferior to a liberal strategy with respect to the composite outcome of death... read more

Promoting High-Value Practice by Reducing Unnecessary Transfusions With a Patient Blood Management Program

Promoting High-Value Practice by Reducing Unnecessary Transfusions With a Patient Blood Management Program

Although blood transfusion is a lifesaving therapy for some patients, transfusion has been named 1 of the top 5 overused procedures in US hospitals. As unnecessary transfusions only increase risk and cost without providing... read more

Optimizing Strategies for Clinical Decision Support

Optimizing Strategies for Clinical Decision Support

As a result of a collaboration between the NAM and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, this NAM Special Publication summarizes and builds upon a meeting series in which a multi-stakeholder... read more

Cochrane Strategy to 2020

Cochrane Strategy to 2020

Strategy to 2020 aims to put Cochrane evidence at the heart of health decision-making all over the world. It defines how we intend to accomplish this and provides a framework for Cochrane's future decision-making, helping... read more