Blood transfusion and 30-day readmission rate in adult patients hospitalized with sickle cell disease crisis.

CONCLUSION: Our findings point to blood transfusion as a potential means to reduce the 30-day readmission rate among Medicaid patients hospitalized with sickle cell crisis. There is a need for a prospective study to examine the potential benefit and safety of simple blood transfusion for this purpose. PMID: 26126756 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26126756?dopt=Abstract

Source: Transfusion - June 30, 2015 Category: Hematology Authors: Nouraie M, Gordeuk VR Tags: Transfusion Source Type: research