Population
560 patients undergoing 765 transfusion episodes in a large medical center over a 2-month period.
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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High inappropriate transfusion rates support stewardship review; leaves open whether interventions improve appropriateness in practice.
A high proportion (42.3%) of blood and blood product transfusions were deemed inappropriate, frequently driven by the overestimation of immediate risk from withholding transfusion.
MozesMD et al. (1989) studied this question.
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