Introduction of national guidelines for restrictive blood transfusion threshold for hip fracture patients--a consecutive cohort study based on complete follow-up in national databases

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
Bjarke VibergS Overgaard

Abstract

Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that a restrictive red blood cell (RBC) transfusion strategy lowers transfusion frequency without affecting mortality. However, the external validity of these trials has not been tested in a large cohort. The purpose was to estimate the effect of introducing a National Clinical Guideline (NCG) for a restrictive hemoglobin transfusion threshold on transfusion frequency and mortality in hip fracture patients > 65 years old. A consecutive cohort study of hip fracture patients > 65 years old residing in the southern region of Denmark was conducted using prospectively gathered data from registers during two separate 1-year time periods. The first period from October 1, 2012, to September 30, 2013, included 1494 patients and used a liberal transfusion threshold, whereas the second period from October 1, 2015, to September 30, 2016, including 1414 participants used a restrictive threshold from the NCG. Participant data for age, sex, body mass index, Charlson Comorbidity Index, time to surgery, and death were retrieved from the Danish Interdisciplinary Registry of Hip Fractures and were merged with RBC transfusion and medication data extracted from the Danish Transfusion and Odense Pharmac...Continue Reading

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