TABLE 4.
Response rates for transfusing facilities to the NBCUS stratified by PHS region, 2013 to 2017
| 2017 | 2015 | 2013* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHS region | Percent | n/N | Percent | n/N | Percent | n/N |
| 1 (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) | 94.4 | 119/126 | 71.2 | 94/132 | 39.5 | 70/177 |
| 2 (NJ, NY) | 91.3 | 189/207 | 80.5 | 165/205 | 32.9 | 77/234 |
| 3 (DC, DE, MD, PA, VA, WV) | 91.0 | 252/277 | 78.5 | 219/279 | 33.8 | 114/337 |
| 4 (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN) | 84.9 | 496/584 | 75.2 | 436/580 | 25.4 | 197/777 |
| 5 (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI) | 85.7 | 437/510 | 77.2 | 407/527 | 26.9 | 201/746 |
| 6 (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX) | 79.2 | 316/399 | 70.3 | 281/400 | 31.5 | 182/577 |
| 7 (IA, KS, MO, NE) | 90.1 | 145/161 | 71.1 | 118/166 | 26.7 | 70/262 |
| 8 (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY) | 88.2 | 97/110 | 75.8 | 91/120 | 20.0 | 38/190 |
| 9 (AZ, CA, HI, NV) | 79.9 | 282/353 | 65.0 | 234/360 | 25.1 | 112/446 |
| 10 (AK, ID, OR, WA) | 85.0 | 102/120 | 75.6 | 93/123 | 23.7 | 40/169 |
| All regions | 85.5 | 2435/2847 | 73.9 | 2138/2892 | 28.1 | 1101/3915 |
*
The 2013 survey did not use sampling, but contact information was unavailable for 610 of 3915 hospitals, and these were not sampled.