The recommended measures to reduce the use of blood transfusions are certainly right and one can recommend to follow the proposals. However, the excellent results of small trials investigated by the authors and the historical comparisons are surprising, and without further details excluding any bias, etc., the results are difficult to understand.
Volker Kretschmer
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