PMID- 11851940
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20020517
LR  - 20191105
IS  - 0958-7578 (Print)
IS  - 0958-7578 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 6
DP  - 2001 Dec
TI  - Transfusion practice in Helsinki University Central Hospital: an analysis of 
      diagnosis-related groups (DRG).
PG  - 423-31
AB  - Transfusion data combined with data automatically recorded in hospital databases 
      provides an outstanding tool for blood utilization reporting. When the reporting 
      is performed with an online analytical processing (OLAP) tool, real time 
      reporting can be provided to blood subscribers. When this data is combined with a 
      common patient classification system, Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG), it is 
      possible to produce statistical results, that are similar in different 
      institutions and may provide a means for international transfusion bench-marking 
      and cost comparison. We use a DRG classification to describe the transfusion 
      practice in Helsinki University Central Hospital. The key indicators include the 
      percentage of transfused patients, the number of transfused units and costs in 
      different DRG groups, as well as transfusion rates per DRG weighted treatment 
      episodes. Ninety-three per cent of all transfusions could be classified into 
      different DRGs. The largest blood-using DRG group was acute adult leukaemia (DRG 
      473), which accounted for 10.4% of all transfusion costs. The 13 largest blood 
      consuming DRGs accounted for half the total costs in 1998. Currently, there is a 
      lack of an internationally accepted standardized way to report institutional or 
      national transfusion practices. DRG-based transfusion reporting might serve as a 
      means for transfusion benchmarking and thus aid studies of variations in 
      transfusion practice.
FAU - Syrjala, M T
AU  - Syrjala MT
AD  - Department of Laboratory Administration, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 
      Haarmaninkatu 4, PO Box 340, 00029 HUS, Helsinki, Finland. martti.syrjala@hus.fi
FAU - Kytoniemi, I
AU  - Kytoniemi I
FAU - Mikkolainen, K
AU  - Mikkolainen K
FAU - Ranimo, J
AU  - Ranimo J
FAU - Lauharanta, J
AU  - Lauharanta J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Transfus Med
JT  - Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England)
JID - 9301182
SB  - IM
MH  - Blood Transfusion/economics/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Databases, Factual
MH  - Diagnosis-Related Groups/economics/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Electronic Data Processing
MH  - Finland
MH  - Hospitals, University
MH  - Humans
EDAT- 2002/02/20 10:00
MHDA- 2002/05/23 10:01
CRDT- 2002/02/20 10:00
PHST- 2002/02/20 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/05/23 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2002/02/20 10:00 [entrez]
AID - 338 [pii]
AID - 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2001.00338.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Transfus Med. 2001 Dec;11(6):423-31. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2001.00338.x.