Associations of donor, component, and recipient factors on hemoglobin increments following red blood cell transfusion in very low birth weight infants
DeSimone R, Plimier C, Goel R, Hendrickson J, Josephson C, Patel R, Sola‐Visner M, Roubinian N. Associations of donor, component, and recipient factors on hemoglobin increments following red blood cell transfusion in very low birth weight infants. Transfusion 2023, 63: 1424-1429. PMID: 37387597, PMCID: PMC10530070, DOI: 10.1111/trf.17468.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLow birth weight infantsRed blood cell transfusionBirth weight infantsBlood cell transfusionVLBW infantsHemoglobin incrementsTransfusion effectivenessCell transfusionWeight infantsRBC transfusionHemoglobin levelsRecipient factorsBlood donorsSingle-unit RBC transfusionsRBC unitsAssociation of donorDonor hemoglobin levelsTransfusion episodesTransfusion eventsClinical outcomesDonor factorsMultivariable regressionTransfusionDonor sexFemale donors