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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2017 Dec 28;26(6):1927–1931. doi: 10.1007/s00520-017-4023-y

Table 2.

Mean difference between death and last transfusion and mean number of red blood cells and platelets transfused in HSCT patients.

Variable Enrolled in hospice
n=16
Not enrolled in hospice
n=100
p-value
Mean difference between death and last transfusion, (mean ± SD, days) 45.9 ± 66.5 14.6 ± 48.1 p<0.0001
Mean number of red blood cells transfused, (mean ± SD, units) 0.7 ± 0.8 0.7 ± 1 p=0.6
Mean number of platelets transfused, (mean ± SD, units) 0.8 ±0.8 1.2 ± 1 p<0.05