Blood donor incentives: A step forward or backward

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-13

  Abolghasemi, Hassan ^a   Hosseini Divkalayi, Nasim S ^a   Seighali, Fariba ^a  

^a IRANIAN BLOOD TRANSFUSION ORGANIZATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood donor; Blood safety; Incentive; Paid donation; Voluntary non remunerated blood donation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860537294     PISSN: 09736247     EISSN: 19983565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-6247.59385     Document Type: Review

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