The Age of BLood Evaluation (ABLE) randomised controlled trial: description of the UK-funded arm of the international trial, the UK cost-utility analysis and secondary analyses exploring factors associated with health-related quality of life and health-care costs during the 12-month follow-up

Walsh, Timothy S; Stanworth, Simon; Boyd, Julia; Hope, David; Hemmatapour, Sue; Burrows, Helen; Campbell, Helen; Pizzo, Elena; Swart, Nicholas; Morris, Stephen

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Transfusing critically ill patients with blood stored for fewer than 7 days rather than blood stored for up to 35 days conferred no clinical or economic benefit.

Timothy S Walsh , Simon Stanworth , Julia Boyd , David Hope , Sue Hemmatapour , Helen Burrows , Helen Campbell , Elena Pizzo , Nicholas Swart & Stephen Morris .

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Timothy S Walsh ^1,^*, Simon Stanworth ^2,^3,⁴, Julia Boyd ⁵, David Hope ⁶, Sue Hemmatapour ⁷, Helen Burrows ⁷, Helen Campbell ⁸, Elena Pizzo ⁹, Nicholas Swart ⁹, Stephen Morris ⁹

¹ Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Division of Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
² Department of Haematology, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK
³ NHS Blood and Transplant, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
⁴ Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
⁵ Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
⁶ Edinburgh Critical Care Research Group, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK
⁷ Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
⁸ National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
⁹ Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: twalsh@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

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