Improving Blood Donor Retention and Donor Relationships with Past Donation Use Appeals

Donor Hemovigilance with Blood Donation.

BACKGROUND Reports on unexpected events (UEs) during blood donation (BD) inadequately consider the role of technical UEs. METHODS Defined local and systemic UEs were graded by severity; technical UEs were not graded. On January 1, 2008, E.B.P.S.-Logistics (EBPS) installed the UE module for plasma management software (PMS). Donor room physicians entered UEs daily into PMS. Medical directors re...

Donor retention in health care in Iran: a factor analysis

Background: Long-term financial support is essential for the survival of a charitable organization. Health charities need to identify the effective factors influencing donor retention. Methods: In the present study, the items of a questionnaire were derived from both literature review and semi-structured interviews related to donor retention. Using a purposive sampling, 300 academic and exec...

The Ethics of Donation and Donor Protection

Breast milk donation: women's donor experience.

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of donation behavior and identify reasons, beliefs and feelings relative to this practice, based on the reports of donor women. Personal and social-environmental aspects, which seem to affect donation behavior in donors and former donors, were also investigated. METHODS An exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out with women d...

Preparing live donor for kidney donation.

PURPOSE In order to select the most appropriate donor and minimize psychological and physical complications in the kidney donors, it is of high importance to prepare the donor meticulously. The essential respective items are reviewed in this study. MATERIALS AND METHODS The available published literature and papers presented in Medline from 1983 to 2003 were reviewed. RESULTS One the source...