Saving lives, maintaining safety, and science-based policy: Qualitative interview findings from the Blood Donation Rules Opinion Study (Blood DROPS)

Transfusion

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2835-2841

  Hughes, Shana ^a   Sheon, Nicolas ^a   Siedle Khan, Bob ^a   Custer, Brian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BLOOD SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAFETY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; EVALUATION STUDY; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENCE; TIME FACTOR;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD SAFETY; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84959539289     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13268     Document Type: Article

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