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Release Date: September 21, 2005
From 1993 to 2003, patients requiring at least one blood transfusion during their
hospital stay increased from 829,000 cases to nearly 2 million cases, according to the Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- Transfusions
are needed when patients are severely anemic or when they have lost blood
due to injury or surgery.
- From 1993 to 2003,
hospital admissions of patients found to have anemia increased from 2.4 million
to 4.1 million. This includes:
- Iron deficiency anemia.
- Anemia associated with
chronic illness such as kidney disease.
- Other unspecified
anemia.
- The number of
patients with acute post-hemorrhagic anemia—severe blood loss that can occur
with some types of injuries or surgeries—decreased from 829,000 cases in 1993
to 746,000 cases in 2003.
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