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Variation in the Numbers of Red Blood Cell Units Transfused at Different Medical Institution Types from 2006 to 2010 in Korea
| Title: | Variation in the Numbers of Red Blood Cell Units Transfused at Different Medical Institution Types from 2006 to 2010 in Korea |
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| Authors: | Vitna Kim, Kun-Sei Lee, Sinyoung Kim, Young Eun Kim, Sang Won Lee, Mina Hur, Soung-Hoon Chang, Hyeongsu Kim, Jongwon Kang |
| Contributors: | Vitna Kim, Hyeongsu Kim, Kunsei Lee, Sounghoon Chang, Mina Hur, Jongwon Kang, Sinyoung Kim, Sang Won Lee, Young-eun Kim, Kim, Sin Young |
| Source: | Ann Lab Med |
| Publisher Information: | Annals of Laboratory Medicine, 2013. |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
| Subject Terms: | Adult, Male, Transfused recipients, Adolescent, Databases, Factual, Hospitals, General, Reimbursement/statistics & numerical data, RBC, Databases, Erythrocyte Transfusion/statistics & numerical data, Insurance, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Sex Factors, 0302 clinical medicine, Neoplasms, Republic of Korea, Neoplasms/therapy, Humans, Musculoskeletal Diseases, General/statistics & numerical data, Preschool, Child, Connective Tissue Diseases, Factual, Aged, Musculoskeletal Diseases/therapy, Connective Tissue Diseases/therapy, Transfusion, Age Factors, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Middle Aged, Newborn, Hospitals, 3. Good health, Health, Tertiary Care Centers/statistics & numerical data, Child, Preschool, Insurance, Health, Reimbursement, Original Article, Female, Erythrocyte Transfusion/trends, Erythrocyte Transfusion |
| Description: | This study aimed at assessing the number of red blood cell (RBC) units transfused at different types of medical institution and examining the characteristics of transfusion recipients.We calculated and compared the number of transfusion recipients, total RBC units transfused, and RBC units transfused per recipient. Study data were extracted from insurance benefits reimbursement claims for RBC units at the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service from 2006 to 2010.Between 2006 and 2010, the number of recipients of RBC units increased from 298,049 to 376,445, the number of RBC units transfused increased from 1,460,799 to 1,841,695, and the number of RBC units transfused per recipient changed from 4.90 to 4.89. The number of recipients aged ≥65 yr increased from 133,833 (44.9%) in 2006 to 196,127 (52.1%) in 2010. The highest number of RBC units was transfused to patients with neoplastic diseases (31.9%) and diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (14.4%). More than 80% of the total number of RBC units were transfused at tertiary and general hospitals. However, this composition rate was slightly decreasing, with the composition rate for hospitals increasing from 12.6% to 16.3%.This study revealed an increase in the number of RBC units transfused over a 5-yr period due to an increase in the number of transfused recipients, especially recipients aged ≥65 yr; moreover, the number of RBC units transfused differed based on medical institution type. These results provide fundamental data on RBC transfusions required for future research. |
| Document Type: | Article Other literature type |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2234-3814 2234-3806 |
| DOI: | 10.3343/alm.2013.33.5.331 |
| Access URL: | https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3756237?pdf=render https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24003423 https://synapse.koreamed.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3343/alm.2013.33.5.331 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756237/ https://synapse.koreamed.org/upload/SynapseData/PDFData/3039alm/alm-33-331.pdf https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART001798640 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3756237 https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20133327011 |
| Rights: | CC BY NC CC BY NC ND |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....6e2b48f88884b74d59b5d1f52ba9e98e |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 22343814 22343806 |
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| DOI: | 10.3343/alm.2013.33.5.331 |