Restrictive versus liberal red blood cell transfusion strategies for people with haematological malignancies treated with intensive chemotherapy or radiotherapy, or both, with or without haematopoietic stem cell support

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 27.

Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2017 Jan 27;1:CD011305. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011305.pub2

Study	Reason for exclusion
Abels 1991	Participants: Oncology participants Intervention: transfusion rates studied not different triggers
Almeida 2013	Participants: non-haematological oncological participants included. An RCT involving adults with cancer who were undergoing abdominal surgery
Bercovitz 2011	Study design: review
Berger 2012	Study design: Ambidirectional cohort study Intervention: one versus two units studied as opposed to a haemoglobin trigger
Bruun 2011	Participants: non-haematological oncological participants included
Carson 2014	A review including RCTs conducting on people with myocardial infarction, brain injury, stroke, or haematological disorders
Holst 2013	Review
ISRCTN26088319	An RCT involving people with myelodysplastic syndrome.
Lightdale 2012	Study design: cohort study using retrospective control.
Mear 2014	Study design: cohort study using historical control.
NCT00202371	Study withdrawn prior to enrolment
NTR2684	Participants: participants receiving chemotherapy were excluded
Paananen 2009	Study design: no prospective element.
Patil 2013	Study design: no prospective element.
Prescott 2016	Review.
Yakymenko 2015	Participants: non-haematological oncological participants included. An RCT involving adults with cancer

RCT = randomised controlled trial