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Hello everyone, Looking for some help/direction based off of a request made by my Medical Director. Do you have a way to track blood utilization in a macro fashion rather than just micro. Not looking at individual patients and their clinical indicators but looking at severity indices in a hospital system as a whole. For example if a severity index for a hospital is 1.3 the average number of transfusions for a patient should be “x” amount. Also, if that number goes up and goes down what is the number of transfusions that should be followed? Request comes from medical director to see if there is a number that hospitals should be shooting for, for average transfusions based off of this variable. Thank you. AABB Tech Manual basically just hits the micro portion of blood utilization(hematocrit, clinical indicators) on certain patients. From what I read there isn't much concerning macro utilization. Just looking at the amount of transfusions per 1000 patients with a severity index of a certain number. Any info or direction to look would be helpful!!!
