Implementing a program to improve compliance with neonatal intensive care unit transfusion guidelines was accompanied by a reduction in transfusion rate: a pre‐post analysis within a multihospital health care system

BACKGROUND: We previously reported that in the year 2006, approximately 35% of the transfusions administered in the Intermountain Healthcare neonatal intensive care units (NICU) were noncompliant with our transfusion guidelines. In January 2009 we instituted an electronic NICU transfusion ordering a... View More