Estimating the prevalence of anemia and its association with perioperative blood transfusion in patients who have no haemoglobin measurement using multiple imputation and inverse probability of treatment weighting
Abstract:Anemic patients are at increased risk of intraoperative and postoperative transfusion, infection and mortality. Anemia is common in surgical patients, previous studies report a prevalence of 30-40%. While patient blood management programs advise screening for anemia, other perioperative initiatives advocate limiting preoperative laboratory testing. Therefore, a large number of surgical patients may not be screened, missing the opportunity for further investigation and management. In our single-center retrospec… Show more
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