The impact of increasing the upper age limit of donation on the eligible blood donor population in Canada

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 395-403

  Fan, W ^a   Yi, Q L ^a,c   Xi, G ^e   Goldman, M ^a,c   Germain, M ^b,d   O'Brien, S F ^a,c  

^a CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

^b HÉMA QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age deferral criteria; Data modelling; Eligible blood donor population

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CANADA; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; CANADA; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84870253380     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2012.01184.x     Document Type: Article

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