Anemia Management and Audit Feedback Practices for Reducing Overuse of RBC Transfusion: A Laboratory Medicine Best Practice Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Conclusions: Preoperative anemia management reduces the proportion of patients transfused and units of RBCs transfused. Audit with feedback across cases, physicians, and/or service areas, as part of a continuous quality improvement practice, reduces the proportion of patients and units of RBCs transfused. PMID: 30357323 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Clinical Pathology - Category: Pathology Authors: Tags: Am J Clin Pathol Source Type: research