Family/friend donors are not true voluntary donors
Background: Family/replacement donors still provide more than 45% of the blood collected in India. National AIDS Control Organization passed the guideline that family/friend donors should be considered as voluntary donors by the blood banks in India ...
Rohit Jain, Gajendra Gupta
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Hemochromatosis Patients as Voluntary Blood Donors [PDF]
The present study was designed to investigate hemochromatosis patients' suitability as blood donors as well as their perceptions and experience with the current public donation system.
Tara E Power, Paul C Adams
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Background: Providing safe blood for transfusion is a responsibility of every blood bank. Screening for transfusion-transmissible infections (TTI) is one of the ways to ensure safety of blood and its products.
Praneeta Jaswant Singh, Hitesh Bhatt
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Background and objectives: To establish if voluntary whole-blood donors and compensated platelet donors and plasma donors may differ in their motivation to donate, altruism, aggression and autoaggression.
Trimmel, M +5 more
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Seroprevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections Among Voluntary Blood Donors at an Indian Hospital [PDF]
Background: The knowledge of the incidence of blood Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTIs) such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection, malaria and syphilis is essential for monitoring the safety of blood supply ...
Kundra M, Sood S, Gulia SP, Sharma N
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Seroprevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among family replacement donors and voluntary non-remunerated blood donors during the COVID-19 pandemic in sub Saharan Africa [PDF]
Introduction : According to WHO, regular, voluntary, unpaid blood donors are the safest group of donors, as they have the lowest prevalence of blood transmitted infections.
Macoura Gadji +3 more
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PREVALENCE OF TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS IN VOLUNTARY AND REPLACEMENT DONORS [PDF]
INDRODUCTION:Transfusion of blood and its components is lifesaving as well as it has life threatening hazards AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The Aimof the study was to find out the prevalence of Transfusion transmitted infections (TTI) in voluntary and ...
K Sreelatha1, Sharadrutha2
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Textbook outcome among voluntary donors undergoing major living donor hepatectomy. [PDF]
Textbook outcome (TO) is a composite measure of outcome and provides superior assessment of quality of care after surgery. TO after major living donor hepatectomy (MLDH) has not been assessed. The objective of this study was to determine the rate of TO and its associated factors, after MLDH.This was a single center retrospective review of living liver ...
Bhatti ABH +8 more
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Psychosocial characteristics of blood donors influence their voluntary non-medical lapse [PDF]
Background: Approximately 10% of Dutch donors lapse yearly. Common reasons are non-voluntary medical issues (e.g., low Hemoglobin), reaching the upper age limit, and voluntary (e.g., own request, non-response).
Anne van Dongen +6 more
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An Exploratory Study of the Differences in Attitudes and Motives Regarding COVID-19 Plasma Donation
Background: Understanding the attitude and motives and differences between voluntary and replacement blood donation is the key to the sustainable availability of this precious resource.
Ashish Maheshwari +4 more
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