Evidence-based criteria for the care and selection of blood donors, with some comments on the relationship to blood supply, and emphasis on the management of donation-induced iron depletion

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-27

  Boulton, F ^a  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Donor; Evidence; Iron deficiency; Selection

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGE; ALTRUISM; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY POSTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL STUDY; CORONARY RISK; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIET; DONOR SELECTION; ETHNICITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HARM REDUCTION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEPLETION; IRON THERAPY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DONOR SELECTION; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IRON;

EID: 39049154443     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2007.00818.x     Document Type: Review

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