Institutional Red Blood Cell Transfusion Rates Are Correlated Following Endovascular and Surgical Cardiovascular Procedures: Evidence That Local Culture Influences Transfusion Decisions.

ABSTRACT: Background The relationship between local hospital culture and transfusion rates following endovascular and surgical cardiovascular procedures has not been well studied. Methods and Results Patients undergoing coronary revascularization, aortic valve replacement, lower extremity peripheral vascular intervention, or carotid artery revascularization from up to 852 US hospitals in the Nationwide Readmissions Database were identified. Crude and risk-standardized red blood cell transfusion rates were determined for each procedure. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated between respective procedural transfusion rates. Median odds ratios were estimated to reflect between-hospital variability in red blood cell transfusion rates following the same procedure for a given patient. There was

SUBMITTER: Apostolidou E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7763716 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature