Safety and frequency of whole blood donations from elderly donors

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 134-139

  Muller Steinhardt M ^a,b   Muller Kuller T ^a,c   Weiss C ^b   Menzel, D ^a,d   Wiesneth, M ^a,e   Seifried, E ^a,c   Kluter H ^a,b  

^a German Red Cross Blood Donation Service Baden Württemberg Hessen   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adverse reaction rate; Demographic change; Donor age limit; Mean annual donation frequency; Whole blood donation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VASCULARIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84856019358     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2011.01531.x     Document Type: Article

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