Factors influencing confidential unit exclusions in blood donors
| Autor: | Ariane Sümnig, Andreas Greinacher, U. Konerding, Thomas Kohlmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Color Blood Donors Truth Disclosure Donor Selection Unit (housing) law.invention Young Adult law Germany Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Psychology Medicine Confidentiality business.industry Records Hematology General Medicine Middle Aged Intervention studies Surgery Blood donor CLARITY Blood Banks Female business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Vox Sanguinis. 98:e231-e240 |
| ISSN: | 1423-0410 0042-9007 |
| Popis: | Background and Objective In many countries blood donors can exclude their donated blood from being transfused in a confidential unit exclusion (CUE) process. We aimed to identify characteristics which might influence the decision for CUE. Study Design and Methods In a 3-step approach we first enroled 29 German blood donation centers in 2005 and addressed how the clarity of different CUE forms applied in these centers was rated by first time blood donors and also assessed three newly designed CUE forms. Second, we performed a survey on the characteristics of the CUE process including 25 centers. Third, we performed an intervention study, in which the CUE form originally applied in the study centre was compared with a newly developed CUE form in a before-after study design with respect to the corresponding CUE rates. Results (1) Clarity of the CUE forms varied considerably. (2) The CUE rate was higher (P |
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