Reports that the Food and Drug Administration has recommended to blood and plasma centers not to accept prisoners as blood donors. Citing of findings that a significant proportion of inmates are likely to ...
In 2001, the criteria for blood donor eligibility in Italy were modified by a ministerial decree from a permanent deferral for "men who have sex with men" to an individual risk assessment of sexual behaviours. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of this change in donor ...
TheBermuda Hospitals Boardannounced revisedblood donoreligibility criteria used in the Bermuda Blood Donor Centre. A spokesperson said, “Eligibility criteria are part of the standards used to ensure the safest possible voluntary blood supply for people in Bermuda who need transfusions. Other standards ...
Donor deferral rates in regional blood centers vary from 5 to 24 per cent, reducing by more than 1,250,000 the number of units of volunteer blood available for transfusion in the nation each year. Those criteria for donor deferral which are intended to exclude donors likely to suffer a "...
Eder A, Goldman M, Rossmann S, Waxman D, Bianco C. Selection criteria to protect the blood donor in North America and Europe: past (dogma), present (evidence), and future (hemovigilance). Transfus Med Rev. 2009 Jul;23(3):205-20....
DOD TIGHTENS BLOOD DONOR SAFETY CRITERIAAGENCYGROUP09EBSCO_bspFdch Regulatory Intelligence Database
ovale infections became symptomatic within 6 months of the patient's arrival in the US, regardless of the use of prophylaxis. Shortening to 6 months the donor exclusion period for US travelers to malarious areas would result in a minimum of 70,000 additional blood donors' being made available...
Eder A, Goldman M, Rossmann S, Waxman D, Bianco C. Selection Criteria to Protect the Blood Donor in North America and Europe: Past (Dogma), Present (Evidence), and Future (Hemovigilance). Transfusion Medicine Reviews. 2009;23:205-20....
The review found that the risks associated with a 12-month deferral of MSM were equivalent to a permanent deferral and the existing policy was inappropriate.Watkins NABrailsford SKelly DTransfusion medicineWatkins NA, Brailsford S, Kelly D. SaBTO review of blood donor selection criteria related to...
Eder A, Goldman M, Rossmann S, Waxman D, Bianco C. Selection criteria to protect the blood donor in North America and Europe: past (dogma), present (evidence), and future (hemovigilance). Transfus Med Rev. 2009 Jul;23(3):205-20....