History of concussion and risk of severe maternal mental illness: a population-based cohort study
Krueger S, Vigod SN, Chan V, Mollayeva T, Alonzo R, Chung A, Brown HK. J Clin Psychiatry. 2024;85(4):24m15373
Background — Gastrointestinal cancer surgery patients often develop perioperative anemia commonly treated with red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. Given the potential associated risks, evidence published over the past 10 years supports restrictive transfusion practices and blood conservation programs. Whether transfusion practices have changed remains unclear. We describe temporal RBC transfusion trends in a large North American population who underwent gastrointestinal cancer surgery.
Methods — We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of patients who underwent gastrointestinal cancer resection between 2007 and 2018 using health administrative datasets. The outcome was RBC transfusion during hospitalization. Temporal transfusion trends were analyzed with Cochran-Armitage tests. Multivariable regression assessed the association between year of diagnosis and likelihood of RBC transfusion while controlling for confounding.
Results — Of 79,764 patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer resection, the median age was 69 years old (interquartile range (IQR) 60–78 years) and 55.5% were male. The most frequent procedures were colectomy (52.8%) and proctectomy (23.0%). A total of 18,175 patients (23%) received RBC transfusion. The proportion of patients transfused decreased from 26.5% in 2007 to 18.9% in 2018 (p < 0.001). After adjusting for patient, procedure, and hospital factors, the most recent time period (2015–2018) was associated with a reduced likelihood of receiving RBC transfusion [relative risk 0.86 (95% confidence interval: 0.83–0.89)] relative to the intermediate time period (2011–2014).
Conclusions — Over 11 years, we observed decreased RBC transfusion use and reduced likelihood of transfusion in patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer resection. This information provides a foundation to further examine transfusion appropriateness or explore if additional transfusion minimization in surgical patients can be achieved.
Zuckerman J, Coburn N, Callum J, Mahar AL, Zuk V, Lin Y, McLeod R, Turgeon AF, Zhao H, Pearsall E, Martel G, Hallet J. Ann Surg Oncol. 2021; 28(1):29-38. Epub 2020 Nov 9.
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