The attitude of Canadian university students toward a behavior-based blood donor health assessment questionnaire

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 742-752

  Go, Stephanie L ^a   Lam, Cindy T Y ^a   Lin, Yahui T ^a   Wong, Deborah J ^a   Lazo Langner, Alejandro ^a   Chin Yee, Ian ^a,b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAFETY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STUDENT ATTITUDE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

EID: 79954608613     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02951.x     Document Type: Article

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