Table 3.

PRBC transfusions among patients initiated with EPO 40,000 U or DARB 500 mcg

	EPO	DARB	P-value
Day 28 to EOS, n a	360	120
Patients requiring PRBC transfusions, n (%)	50 (13.9)	27 (22.5)	0.026
Mean (SD) number of units transfused per transfused patient	2.7 (1.68)	3 (1.45)	0.223
Mean (SD) number of units transfused per study patient	0.4 (1.12)	0.7 (1.42)	0.020

EPO epoetin alfa, DARB darbepoetin alfa, PRBC packed red blood cells, EOS end of study, SD standard deviation

^aPatients with available data from day 28 to EOS were reported in this table