Şanal, Laser http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4280-8895
Günaydın, Serdar http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9717-9793
Tatar, Mehtap http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9189-9178
Funding for this research was provided by:
Vifor (International) Ltd
Article History
Received: 29 June 2023
Accepted: 9 November 2023
First Online: 19 December 2023
Declarations
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: Mehtap Tatar provides consultancy to CSL Vifor. Laser Şanal and Serdar Günaydın declare that they have no competing interests.
: Research guidelines for Turkey indicate that no ethics approval was required for the study design employed here. The study used an economic modelling approach with aggregate figures, not patient-level data. The statistical data used presented no interference and therefore ethics committee approval was waived. Appropriate permissions to use aggregate data from the cardiovascular surgery department were obtained from Dr. Şanal as the head of the transfusion center.