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**BACKGROUND** : Preoperative donation of blood lowers the risk of allogeneic RBC transfusion. The use of autologous blood is not well quantified. This study aimed at identifying the frequency and determinants of use of autologous transfusion in the United States. **STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:** This national cross‐sectional study, using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, included all patients admitted to 900 hospitals in 19 states in 1996. Logistic regression with weighting yielded nationally representative results for the independent effects of clinical and nonclinical patient characteristics on autologous blood use. **RESULTS:** Autologous transfusion was used in 19 of 1000 hospitalizations. The procedures using autologous blood most frequently were knee arthroplasty, hip replacement, prostatectomy, spinal fusion, and hysterectomy. Blacks and Hispanics were less likely to receive autologous transfusion than were whites (OR, 0. 64; 95% CI, 0.45‐0.83); patients with Medicaid were less likely than the privately insured to receive autologous transfusions (OR, 0.29; 95% CI, 0.20‐0.43), with racial differences greatest among the privately insured. Women received autologous blood for cardi

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Author

Jodi B. Segal; Eliseo Guallar; Neil R. Powe

Publisher

Elsevier Science; John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Elsevier; Elsevier BV; Wiley (ISSN 0372-1248)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)