Blood donors in England and North Wales: Demography and patterns of donation

Transfusion

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 91-99

  Lattimore, Samuel ^a   Wickenden, Crispin ^a   Brailsford, Susan R ^a  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BANGLADESHI; BLOOD DONOR; BRITISH CITIZEN; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRISH (CITIZEN); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRANT; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULARIZATION; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920889904     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12835     Document Type: Article

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