Table 2.

Wastage and transfusion volumes

	Pre-intervention	Post-intervention	p-value
All blood components (total units)	6619	6575
- Transfusion per patient; median; IQR	3 (2–6)	2 (2–6)	0.002
- Wastage	109 (1.6%)	73 (1.1%)	0.008
Red blood cells (total units)	3661	3966
- Transfusion per patient; median; IQR*	2 (2–4)	2 (2–4)	< 0.001
- Wastage	64 (1.7%)	40 (1.0%)	0.005
Fresh frozen plasma (total units)	1544	1576
- Transfusion per patient; median; IQR*	4 (2–6)	3 (2–5)	0.04
- Wastage	21 (1.4%)	19 (1.2%)	0.70
Cryoprecipitate (total units)	674	430
- Transfusion per patient; median; IQR*	10 (5–12)	5 (5–10)	0.008
- Wastage	20 (3.0%)	13 (3.0%)	0.96
Platelets (total units)	740	603
- Transfusion per patient; median; IQR*	2 (2–4)	2 (2–4)	0.75
- Wastage	4 (0.5%)	1 (0.2%)	0.51

*Among patients transfused the blood component