Higher or Lower Hemoglobin Transfusion Thresholds for Preterm Infants

Haresh Kirpalani¹, Edward F Bell¹, Susan R Hintz¹+32

• ¹From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia (H.K., B.S., A.S.C.); the Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City (E.F.B., K.J.J., J.A.W.); the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto (S.R.H., V.Y.C.), and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (U.D.) - both in California; the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Division, RTI International, Research Triangle Park (S.T., M.M.C.), and the Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham (C.M.C.) - both in North Carolina; the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Division, RTI International, Rockville (J.E.N., A.D.), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (R.D.H.) - both in Maryland; the Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI (B.R.V., A.R.L.); the Division of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (W.A.C.); the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY (C.T.D., M.F.C.); the Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston (K.A.K.), and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (M.H.W.); the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque (R.K.O.); the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City (R.K.O., B.A.Y.); the Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis (B.B.P., G.M.S.); Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati (B.B.P., K.S.), the Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (M.C.W.), and Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus (R.S.); the Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada (R.K.W.); the Department of Neonatology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston (J.A.F.Z.); the Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO (W.E.T.); Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta (R.M.P.); the Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit (S.C.); and the College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (R.D.H.).