Improving Blood Transfusion Practices in a Community Hospital Setting: Our Experience with Real-Time Clinical Decision Support

Improving Blood Transfusion Practices in a Community Hospital Setting: Our Experience with Real-Time Clinical Decision Support

There is good evidence that 50% or more of red blood cell (RBC) transfusions are unnecessary. To curtail inappropriate RBC transfusions at our hospital, real-time clinical decision support was implemented in our electronic medical record (EMR) that alerts clinicians to the patient’s most recent pret...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Sardar, Muhammad Azharuddin, Ananta Subedi, Prateek Ghatage, Doantarang Du, Arpad Szallasi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-08-01
Series:Medical Sciences
Subjects:
blood utilization
real-time transfusion support
inappropriate transfusion alert
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3271/6/3/67

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