Characteristics of lapsed german whole blood donors and barriers to return four years after the initial donation

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-15

  Weidmann, Christian ^a   Müller Steinhardt, Michael ^a,b   Schneider, Sven ^a   Weck, Eberhard ^a,b   Klüter, Harald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b German Red Cross Blood Service Baden   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barriers; Blood donation; Donor return; Lapsed donors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB CHANGE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; SELF REPORT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84856698583     PISSN: 16603796     EISSN: 16603818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335602     Document Type: Article

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