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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2018

An Original Approach to Evaluating the Quality of Blood Donor Selection: Checking Donor Questionnaires and Analyzing Donor Deferral Rate.

Philippe Gillet, Esther Neijens

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Philippe GilletService du Sang, Belgian Red-Cross, Suarlée, Belgium.
Esther NeijensService du Sang, Belgian Red-Cross, Suarlée, Belgium.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blood donor selection is a cornerstone for blood transfusion safety, designed to safeguard the health of both donors and recipients. In the Service du Sang, Belgian Red Cross, French and German-speaking part of Belgium (SFS), health professionals (HPs) are allowed to interview donors on their own after formal qualification. This qualification is afterward evaluated by means of two complementary quality indicators: monitoring of donor health questionnaires (DHQs) and analysis of donor deferral rate. The study aims to evaluate the degree to which both quality indicators may be useful and appropriate tools to evaluate the quality of blood donor selection. An analysis performed on 2016 data showed that noncompliance detected by means of DHQ monitoring seems to be more frequent in HPs who conduct a low number of interviews compared to all HPs as a group (5.67 vs. 3.23%;

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blood donor selectiondonor deferral ratedonor health questionnaireevaluationtransfusion safety

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PMID29619370
PMCPMC5871657
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