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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transfusion. 2011 Sep 2;52(3):635–640. doi: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03329.x

Table 1.

Product Wastage, Percent of Total Received from Suppliers

18 Months Prior
Oct. 2003--March 2005		 18 Months After
June 2005–Oct. 2006		 p value
Whole Blood PLTs 10.8 16.4 <0.0001
Apheresis PLTs 5.4 5.6 0.7898
RBC 1.5 1.7 NS
plasma 11.2 11.0 NS