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Table 3 Agreement between Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUS) Data Collection and the Blood Watch (Hospital blood bank) Data Collection on quantity transfused for infants registered in the NICUS Data Collection

From: Comparison of neonatal red cell transfusion reporting in neonatal intensive care units with blood product issue data: a validation study

 

Blood Watch

NICUS Data Collection

0 units

1–2 units

3–4 units

5–9 units

10 plus units

None

3240

56

10

3

0

1–2 units

40

306

17

3

0

3–4 units

8

10

115

16

0

5–9 units

8

1

5

68

2

10 plus units

1

0

0

7

18

Weighted Kappa (95% CI)

0.90 (0.88, 0.92)

<.0001