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McVey MJ, Cohen R, Arsenault V, Escorcia A, Tasmin F, Pendergrast J, Lieberman L, Lin Y, Callum J, Cserti-Gazdewich C. Frequency and timing of all-cause deaths in visits involving suspected transfusion reactions, and the significance of cardiopulmonary disturbances. Vox Sang 2021; 116:898-909. [PMID: 33634884 DOI: 10.1111/vox.13086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Revised: 01/16/2021] [Accepted: 01/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Transfusion reactions (TRs) may cause or contribute to death. Cardiopulmonary TRs are distressing, and collectively account for most transfusion fatalities, though the degree to which they alter survival more broadly is unclear. Deaths (and their timing) after TRs may provide further insights. MATERIALS/METHODS Adult (tri-hospital network) haemovigilance data (2013-2016) recorded referrals with conclusions ranging from unrelated to transfusion (UTR) to entities such as: septic TRs, serologic/haemolytic reactions, transfusion-associated circulatory overload (TACO), transfusion-associated dyspnoea (TAD), transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI), allergic transfusion reaction (ATR), and others. For (in- or out-patient) visits involving suspected TRs (VISTRs), all-cause mortalities (% [95% confidence interval]) and associated time-to-death (TTD) (median days, [interquartile range]) were compared. Diagnoses were defined inclusively (possible-to-definite) or strictly (probable-to-definite). RESULTS Of 1144 events, rank order VISTR mortality following (possible-to-definite) TRs, and associated TTDs, were led by: DHTR 33% [6-19], 1 death at 123d; TRALI 32% [15-54], 6 deaths: 3d [2-20]; BaCon 21% [14-31], 17 deaths: 10d [3-28]; TACO 18% [12-26], 23 deaths: 16d [6-28]; TAD 17% [11-26]: 18 deaths, 6d [3-12]. Higher-certainty TRs ranked similarly (DHTR 50% [9-91]; BaCon 29% [12-55], 4 deaths: 12d [3-22]; and TACO 25% [16-38], 15 deaths: 21d [6-28]). VISTR mortality after TACO or TRALI significantly exceeded ATR (3·3% [2·4-5·8], P < 0·00001) but was not different from UTR events (P = 0·3). CONCLUSIONS Only half of cardiopulmonary TRs constituted high certainty diagnoses. Nevertheless, cardiopulmonary TRs and suspected BaCon marked higher VISTR mortality with shorter TTDs. Short (<1 week) TTDs in TAD, BaCon or TRALI imply either contributing roles in death, treatment refractoriness and/or applicable TR susceptibilities in the dying.
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- Mark J McVey
- Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, SickKids, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Utilization, Efficacy, & Safety of Transfusion (QUEST) Research Program, University of Toronto Quality, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Transfusion Medicine and Tissue Bank, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Molecular Diagnostics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Blood Transfusion Laboratory (Laboratory Medicine Program), University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Blood Transfusion Laboratory (Laboratory Medicine Program), University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Utilization, Efficacy, & Safety of Transfusion (QUEST) Research Program, University of Toronto Quality, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Blood Transfusion Laboratory (Laboratory Medicine Program), University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medicine (Medical Oncology & Hematology), University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Utilization, Efficacy, & Safety of Transfusion (QUEST) Research Program, University of Toronto Quality, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Blood Transfusion Laboratory (Laboratory Medicine Program), University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Utilization, Efficacy, & Safety of Transfusion (QUEST) Research Program, University of Toronto Quality, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Transfusion Medicine and Tissue Bank, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Molecular Diagnostics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Utilization, Efficacy, & Safety of Transfusion (QUEST) Research Program, University of Toronto Quality, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Transfusion Medicine and Tissue Bank, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Molecular Diagnostics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Utilization, Efficacy, & Safety of Transfusion (QUEST) Research Program, University of Toronto Quality, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Blood Transfusion Laboratory (Laboratory Medicine Program), University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medicine (Medical Oncology & Hematology), University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Asadi F, Ramezanghorbani N. Proposing a Model for the National Hemovigilance Information System in Iran. J Med Life 2020; 13:211-218. [PMID: 32742516 PMCID: PMC7378330 DOI: 10.25122/jml-2019-0112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The present study aimed to propose a model for the national hemovigilance information system with a database approach, considering the importance and necessity of developing an information system for such a network. This is an applied, descriptive, and cross-sectional study, which was conducted in 2018. The research population comprised hemovigilance information systems in advanced countries, including the USA, UK, Australia, and France. Data were collected from library sources and the Internet from 2000 to 2018. The proposed model for the national hemovigilance information system was introduced using comparative tables and based on the similarities and differences of systems in the studied countries. The proposed model was then validated using the two-step Delphi technique through a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity was confirmed, and reliability was approved by a Cronbach’s alpha of 94%. The final model of the national hemovigilance information system comprised five main components: goals, organizations involved in the blood transfusion process, databases of blood transfusion organizations, data transfer flow between the databases of blood transfusion organizations, and transferable datasets, and hemovigilance-related committees. This model was approved by experts with an >85% agreement coefficient. The national hemovigilance information system with a database approach can improve blood transfusion health by providing access to reliable sources on blood transfusion complications to everyone, especially the medical community. Thus, it is essential to implement this standard accurately and precisely control the practical methods of this process based on international guidelines.
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- Farkhondeh Asadi
- Department of Health Information Technology and Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Development & Coordination Scientific Information and Publications, Deputy of Research & Technology, Ministry of Health & Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
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BACKGROUND Data mining technology used in the field of medicine has been widely studied by scholars all over the world. But there is little research on medical data mining (MDM) from the perspectives of bibliometrics and visualization, and the research topics and development trends in this field are still unclear. METHODS This paper has applied bibliometric visualization software tools, VOSviewer 1.6.10 and CiteSpace V, to study the citation characteristics, international cooperation, author cooperation, and geographical distribution of the MDM. RESULTS A total of 1575 documents are obtained, and the most frequent document type is article (1376). SHAN NH is the most productive author, with the highest number of publications of 12, and the Gillies's article (750 times citation) is the most cited paper. The most productive country and institution in MDM is the USA (559) and US FDA (35), respectively. The Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Expert Systems with Applications and Journal of Medical Systems are the most productive journals, which reflected the nature of the research, and keywords "classification (790)" and "system (576)" have the strongest strength. The hot topics in MDM are drug discovery, medical imaging, vaccine safety, and so on. The 3 frontier topics are reporting system, precision medicine, and inflammation, and would be the foci of future research. CONCLUSION The present study provides a panoramic view of data mining methods applied in medicine by visualization and bibliometrics. Analysis of authors, journals, institutions, and countries could provide reference for researchers who are fresh to the field in different ways. Researchers may also consider the emerging trends when deciding the direction of their study.
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- Yuanzhang Hu
- School of Medical Information Engineering, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan
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- College of Acupuncture and TuiNa, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan
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- School of Medical Information Engineering, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan
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Py JY, Cabezon B, Sapey T, Jutant T. Unacknowledged adverse transfusion reactions: Are they a mine to dig? Transfus Clin Biol 2017; 25:63-72. [PMID: 28690037 DOI: 10.1016/j.tracli.2017.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 06/12/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Haemovigilance has long tried to characterize and understand transfusion reactions in order to prevent them. Unacknowledged ones are now a minority but they question us. Are they the result of incomplete clinical setting and/or insufficient medical reasoning, or can they contain real new entities we have not yet understood? MATERIAL AND METHODS Ten volunteer experts reviewed 30 recent unacknowledged cases. Their diagnostic propositions were compared with data issued from a five-year repository we have analysed in terms of statistical links between clinical signs and diagnoses. RESULTS Experts' opinions are only quite unanimous in 60% of the cases, and the proposed diagnosis remains unacknowledged in 53%. Repository comparison shows that signs like pain or digestive symptoms are far more frequent in unknown reactions. However, it is more the absence of some other signs which drives to that conclusion, in a default diagnosis mechanism. CONCLUSION Errors in transfusion reactions medical analysis are rare. Unacknowledged cases are more often linked to poor or unspecific clinical setting. But a particular attention must be paid with infrequent diagnoses which are far less characterised, like metabolic complications. Pain high occurrence in unknown cases also commands us to go further in the characterisation of acute pain transfusion reaction diagnosis, which is suggested by some authors.
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- J-Y Py
- EFS Centre-Atlantique Orléans, 190, rue Léon-Foucault, 45140 Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, France.
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- EFS Centre-Atlantique Saintes, 33, chemin des Carrières-de-la-Croix, 17100 Saintes, France
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- ARS Centre Val-de-Loire, 131, rue du Faubourg-Bannier, 45000 Orléans, France
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- EFS Centre-Atlantique Poitiers, 350, avenue Jacques-Cœur, 86000 Poitiers, France
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