First-time donors responding to a national disaster may be an untapped resource for the blood centre

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 338-344

  Guo, N ^a   Wang, J ^b   Ness, P ^c   Yao, F ^d   Bi, X ^e   Li, J ^f   Yun, Z ^g   Guo, X ^h   Huang, Y ^b   Dong, X ^d   Tiemuer, M H L ^e   He, W ^f   Ma, H ^g   Huang, M ^h   Liu, J ⁱ   Wright, D J ⁱ   Nelson, K ^a   Shan, H ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (China)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Yunnan Kunming Blood Center   (China)

^e Urumqi Blood Center   (China)

^f Guangxi Blood Center   (China)

^g Luoyang Blood Center   (China)

^h Mianyang Blood Center   (China)

ⁱ WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

Donors; Epidemiology; Motivation recruitment

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DONOR SELECTION; EARTHQUAKE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION RATE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYPHILIS;

ADULT; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; CHINA; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84859824280     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2011.01557.x     Document Type: Article

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