Blood donor profiling using donation patterns

Donor Hemovigilance with Blood Donation.

BACKGROUND Reports on unexpected events (UEs) during blood donation (BD) inadequately consider the role of technical UEs. METHODS Defined local and systemic UEs were graded by severity; technical UEs were not graded. On January 1, 2008, E.B.P.S.-Logistics (EBPS) installed the UE module for plasma management software (PMS). Donor room physicians entered UEs daily into PMS. Medical directors re...

Blood donation patterns and challenges in Southern Africa

Introduction: Developing countries face significant challenges in collecting sufficient blood to meet the demands from patients. Southern African countries have implemented many initiatives to recruit and retain sufficient voluntary blood donors and the success has been varied in different countries. Objective: To analyse blood donor patterns and challenges in the 14 Southern African countries ...

Blood Donation

The Ethics of Donation and Donor Protection

Breast milk donation: women's donor experience.

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of donation behavior and identify reasons, beliefs and feelings relative to this practice, based on the reports of donor women. Personal and social-environmental aspects, which seem to affect donation behavior in donors and former donors, were also investigated. METHODS An exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out with women d...