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Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2014 Jan 25;165(1):3–16. doi: 10.1111/bjh.12747

Table III.

Ongoing randomized controlled trials assessing the effect of red blood cell storage time on clinical outcomes

Official title or Acronym	Patients		Primary outcome	Country	Years	Trial registration
Official title or Acronym	Accrual goal (n)	Setting	Primary outcome	Country	Years	Trial registration
ABLE	2,510	ICU	all cause mortality at day 90	Canada 23 locations	2008–2013 completed^*	ISRCTN44878718
Red Cell Storage Duration and Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery	2,800	All cardiopulmonary bypass patients	mortality at day 30 post-surgery	USA single centre	2007–2014 recruiting	NCT00458783
RECESS	1,696	Scheduled complex cardiac surgery	MODS	USA 26 locations	2010–2013 recruiting	NCT00991341
INFORM	24,400	Acute care inpatients	in-hospital mortality	Canada, USA, Australia	2012–2014 recruiting	ISRCTN08118744
TRANSFUSE	5,000	ICU excluding cardiac surgery	mortality at day 90	Australia, New Zealand, Finland	2012–2016 recruiting	NCT01638416 ACTRN12612000453886

recruiting completed, publication of results pending. ICU, intensive care unit; MODS, multiple organ dysfunction score.