Donor notification and counseling - Experience and challenges

Transfusion and Apheresis Science

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 291-294

  Kaur, Gagandeep ^a   Kaur, Paramjit ^a   Basu, Sabita ^a   Kaur, Ravneet ^a   Sharma, Simmi ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Donor counseling; Donor notification; Reactive donors; Transfusion transmitted infections

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; COUNSELING; DONOR COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYPHILIS;

DONOR COUNSELING; DONOR NOTIFICATION; REACTIVE DONORS; TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COUNSELING; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYPHILIS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 84886641798     PISSN: 14730502     EISSN: 18781683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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