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The Sanguis Study in Belgium - An Overview of Methods and Results
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Current Transfusion PracticeSurgerySpeech SciencePhonologyHospital MedicineLanguage AcquisitionLanguage StudiesAcoustic AnalysisStatisticsTransfusion MedicineMorphologyOutcomes ResearchSpeech AcousticSanguis StudySpeech CommunicationPatient SafetyMedicineLinguisticsBlood TransfusionMulticentric European StudyAnesthesiology
SANGUIS was multicentric European study involving more than 7,000 patients in 43 teaching hospitals during a one year period. The goal of the study was to describe current transfusion practice for elective surgery in adult. The present paper summarizes the data collected on the 1,193 patients enrolled in Belgium. It also introduces the final report of the SANGUIS study in Belgium, which will be published as a special issue of the Acta Chirurgica Belgica.