Variation in Red Blood Cell Transfusion Practices During Cardiac Operations Among Centers in Maryland: Results From a State Quality-Improvement Collaborative J. Trent Magruder, MD, Elena Blasco-Colmenares, MD, PhD, Todd Crawford, MD, Diane Alejo, BA, John V. Conte, MD, Rawn Salenger, MD, Clifford E. Fonner, BA, Christopher C. Kwon, MD, Jennifer Bobbitt, BSN, RN, James M. Brown, MD, Mark G. Nelson, MD, Keith A. Horvath, MD, Glenn R. Whitman, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 103, Issue 1, Pages 152-160 (January 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.109 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Risk-adjusted predicted probabilities shown by center for intraoperative (red markers) and postoperative (blue markers) red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. Probabilities and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) taken from model II in Table 3. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 152-160DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.109) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Mean risk-adjusted predicted probabilities of intraoperative transfusion stratified by quartiles of preoperative hematocrit (HcT) value as well as by center (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) shown in Table 4). Center identifier shown at left end of curves; note that centers 1 and 10 overlie each other. (RBC = red blood cell.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, 152-160DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.109) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions