Trends in US minority red blood cell unit donations

Transfusion

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1226-1234

  Yazer, Mark H ^a   Delaney, Meghan ^b   Germain, Marc ^c   Karafin, Matthew S ^d   Sayers, Merlyn ^e   Vassallo, Ralph ^f   Ziman, Alyssa ^g   Shaz, Beth ^h  

^a INSTITUTE FOR TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BloodWorks Northwest   (United States)

^c HÉMA QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^d BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Blood Systems Incorporated   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALASKA NATIVE; ERYTHROCYTE; ETHNICITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NATIVE HAWAIIAN; PACIFIC ISLANDER; RACE; UNITED STATES; ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; MINORITY GROUP; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TRENDS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ERYTHROCYTES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85018198218     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.14039     Document Type: Article

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