Namibia's transition from whole blood-derived pooled platelets to single-donor apheresis platelet collections

Transfusion

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1685-1692

  Pitman, John P ^a   Basavaraju, Sridhar V ^a   Shiraishi, Ray W ^a   Wilkinson, Robert ^b   Von Finckenstein, Bjorn ^b   Lowrance, David W ^d   Marfin, Anthony A ^a   Postma, Maarten ^f,g   Mataranyika, Mary ^c   Smit Sibinga, Cees Th ^e  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b The Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia   (Namibia)

^c Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services Dir for Clinical Support Services   (Namibia)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e ID Consulting for International Development of Transfusion Medicine   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; SINGLE DONOR APHERESIS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; WHOLE BLOOD DERIVED POOLED PLATELET; DONOR SELECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; NAMIBIA; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD PLATELETS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NAMIBIA; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PLATELETPHERESIS;

EID: 84937022812     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13049     Document Type: Article

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