European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 17, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(20):2551-2552; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm337
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Nosocomial anaemia: reply
Department of Cardiology
Rambam Medical Center
Bat Galim
PO Box 9602
Haifa 31096
Israel
Department of Cardiology
Rambam Medical Center
Bat Galim
PO Box 9602
Haifa 31096
Israel
Department of Cardiology
Rambam Medical Center
Bat Galim
PO Box 9602
Haifa 31096
Israel
E-mail address: d_aronson@rambam.health.gov.il
| The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below. |
We appreciate Dr Liron's comments regarding our article. Because the focus of our study was to examine the relationship between changes in haemoglobin during hospital course and post-hospital discharge outcome, we excluded patients who died during the index hospitalization. This allowed that every patient