Table 4. The participants’ opinions about how RBCs transfusions increase or decrease the risk of patients’ outcomes.
| n | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Post-operative morbidity | Decrease/Strongly decrease | 21 | 37.5% |
| Increase/Strongly increase | 28 | 50.0% | |
| Neither increase nor decrease | 7 | 12.5% | |
| Post-operative mortality | Decrease/Strongly decrease | 22 | 39.3% |
| Increase/Strongly increase | 17 | 30.4% | |
| Neither increase nor decrease | 17 | 30.4% | |
| Cancer recurrence after oncologic surgical resection | Decrease/Strongly decrease | 0 | 0.0% |
| Increase/Strongly increase | 25 | 44.6% | |
| Neither increase nor decrease | 31 | 55.4% | |
| Survival after oncologic surgical resection | Decrease/Strongly decrease | 5 | 8.9% |
| Increase/Strongly increase | 10 | 17.9% | |
| Neither increase nor decrease | 41 | 73.2% | |