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ReviewJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2026

Designing and implementing a clinical decision support tool to improve compliance with NICU transfusions.

Ameena N Husain, Amanda Drury, Erica A Swenson, Ryan A Metcalf, Kelly Cail, Kensaku Kawamoto, Catherine L Chang, Bailey B Zeiler, Timothy M Bahr, Robin K Ohls and 1 more

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Review in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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11 authors.

Ameena N HusainDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Ameena.Husain@hsc.utah.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1274-7235
Amanda DruryDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Erica A SwensonDivision of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health and ARUP Blood Services, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Ryan A MetcalfDivision of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health and ARUP Blood Services, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Kelly CailDivision of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Utah Health and ARUP Blood Services, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Kensaku KawamotoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, SLC, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4282-9338
Catherine L ChangDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7559-4817
Bailey B ZeilerDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-6820-0710
Timothy M BahrDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7946-0290
Robin K OhlsDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2865-8878
Robert D ChristensenDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-582X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), out of all hospitalized patients, are among those with the highest likelihood of receiving blood products. Because liberal transfusion strategies can be harmful, transfusion risks should be weighed against potential benefits. In the adult population, implementing electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tools for transfusion have resulted in decreased transfusion rates, conservation of resources, and lower costs. The NICU at the University of Utah Hospital has transfusion guidelines, but a recent audit indicated that a considerable proportion of transfusions were not compliant. Clinicians indicated that one reason for guideline deviation is not having guidelines immediately available in a timely reminder during the transfusion ordering process. Therefore, we built a new electronic transfusion CDS tool for our NICU. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an electronic health record-based CDS tool for both red blood cell and platelet transfusions in a NICU.

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