Effect of a National Disaster on Blood Supply and Safety: The September 11 Experience

JAMA

Volumn 289, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2246-2253

  Glynn, Simone A ^a   Busch, Michael P ^b,c   Schreiber, George B ^a   Murphy, Edward L ^b,c   Wright, David J ^a   Tu, Yongling ^a   Kleinman, Steven H ^a  

^a WESTAT   (United States)

^b Blood Centers of the Pacific   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTAMINATION; DISASTER; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; SAFETY; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037809691     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.289.17.2246     Document Type: Review

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