Table 2.

Temporal trends in the number of hospitals and patient outcomes

	FY 2012	FY 2013	FY 2014	FY 2015	FY 2016	P value
Hospital characteristics (Total No.: 682)
HTD introducing GPC	418	418	454	454	451
HTD not introducing GPC	187	187	172	172	177
Non-HTD	77	77	56	56	54
Patient characteristics
“Bleeding” total patients No.	3928	4331	4487	4357	4474
HA administration No.	419	432	414	367	390
Prop. (%)	10.7	10.0	9.2	8.4	8.7	0.002a
In-hospital death No.	54	57	48	62	62
Mortality rate (%)	1.4	1.3	1.1	1.4	1.4	0.60a
Average hospital LOS (day)	19.3	19.1	17.7	16.3	16.5	0.037†
“Sepsis” total patients No.	18,406	19,973	23,301	24,452	24,330
HA administration No.	4209	4413	4933	4937	5028
Prop. (%)	22.9	22.1	21.2	20.2	20.7	< 0.001a
In-hospital death No.	4052	4008	4515	4425	4543
Mortality rate (%)	22.0	20.1	19.4	18.1	18.7	< 0.001a
Average hospital LOS (day)	30.6	30.3	28.1	27.6	27.5	< 0.001†
“Burn injury” total patients No.	1598	1675	1647	1531	1363
HA administration No.	410	446	406	356	313
Prop. (%)	25.7	26.6	24.7	23.3	23.0	0.089a
In-hospital death No.	122	142	132	121	87
Mortality rate (%)	7.6	8.5	8.0	7.9	6.4	0.28a
Average hospital LOS (day)	36.2	35.4	33.6	33.7	33.2	0.037†

Note: Mortality rate was estimated by dividing “in-hospital death No.” by “Total patient No.”. The results of the statistical analysis of patient outcomes were estimated for each of the 3 patient groups across all hospitals. ^aObtained by the Cochran-Armitage test; †Obtained by Spearman’s rank correlation. HA human albumin; FY fiscal year (begin on 1 April of the year, and end on 31 March of the next year); HTD hospital transfusion department; GPC good practice criteria of blood products; Prop proportion