title: Reply: To PMID 23647857.
authors.affiliation: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Blackstone
authors.affiliation: National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horvath
authors.affiliation: Health Evidence and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave L Levy Pl, Box 1077, New York, NY10029. Electronic address: alan.moskowitz@mssm.edu.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moskowitz
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D065227:Transfusion Reaction