TABLE 20.

Percentage of hospitals using various criteria for routine dosing of transfusions for non-pediatric patients, 2015 and 2017

	2017			2015
Dosing criteria	Plasma % (n)	Prophylactic PLTs % (n)	Therapeutic PLTs % (n)	Plasma % (n)	Prophylactic PLTs % (n)	Therapeutic PLTs % (n)
Weight-based dosing (e.g., 20 mL/kg)	5.4 (119)	1.7 (36)	1.5 (33)	5.8 (102)	1.6 (29)	1.3 (22)
Standard number of units regardless of weight	8.6 (188)	11.4 (248)	11.3 (246)	9.0 (159)	12.0 (211)	10.8 (190)
Dosage varies based on level of thrombocytopenia or bleeding	66.4 (1454)	67.7 (1475)	70.3 (1535)	67.2 (1189)	67.0 (1177)	71.5 (1253)
Number of units ordered not consistent with any of the above	19.6 (429)	19.2 (419)	16.9 (368)	18.0 (319)	19.4 (341)	16.4 (288)