Safety and costs of blood transfusion practices in dengue cases in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dengue is a public health problem, and noncompliance with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for blood transfusion components is frequently reported. Moreover, economic impact studies of the WHO recommendations on the use of blood transfusion are scarce.

Methods

We compared the cost and hospitalization time in a prospective observational study, by following hospitalised patients and analysing their medical records from 2010 and March 2016 to December 2017. We divided the patients into two groups: transfused (with or without WHO criteria for transfusion) and not transfused (with or without WHO criteria for transfusion). Generalised linear modelling was performed to identify the variable that could increase the costs and hospital stay.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Machado AAV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6613682 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature