Improvements in red blood cell transfusion utilization following implementation of a single-unit default for electronic ordering.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevention of excessive allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is an important component of patient blood management initiatives. In this investigation, changes in transfusion behaviors following modification of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) procedures for RBC transfusions to a single-unit default quantity were assessed.

Study design and methods

This is an observational cohort study of adults for whom nonemergency allogeneic RBC transfusions were ordered in the 2 years before and 2 years after the date of modification of the CPOE system to a single-unit default (June 18, 2015). Changes in the frequency of single- versus multiunit RBC transfusion orders and other transfusion metrics were compared between preintervention and postintervention coh

SUBMITTER: Warner MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6610646 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature