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An update of blood donor recruitment and retention in Hong Kong

A healthy blood donor pool has to be well maintained in order to achieve self sufficiency in blood supply. Not only should new and young donors should be attracted and recruited into the pool so as to compensate the loss from drop out and deferred donors. At the same time, previous donors should be...

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Autores principales: Lee, C. K., Hong, J., Hung, A. T. F.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2798765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20041076
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6247.42691
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description A healthy blood donor pool has to be well maintained in order to achieve self sufficiency in blood supply. Not only should new and young donors should be attracted and recruited into the pool so as to compensate the loss from drop out and deferred donors. At the same time, previous donors should be also actively retained to ensure they can come regularly. The status of donor recruitment and retention in Hong Kong is reviewed here to highlight the current difficulties in coping with increasing blood demand from an ageing population, stringent donor eligibility criteria and quality requirement in the blood collection. With a systemic analysis of the donation pattern, proposal is put forward to tackle the challenging problems.
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spelling pubmed-27987652009-12-29 An update of blood donor recruitment and retention in Hong Kong Lee, C. K. Hong, J. Hung, A. T. F. Asian J Transfus Sci Original Article A healthy blood donor pool has to be well maintained in order to achieve self sufficiency in blood supply. Not only should new and young donors should be attracted and recruited into the pool so as to compensate the loss from drop out and deferred donors. At the same time, previous donors should be also actively retained to ensure they can come regularly. The status of donor recruitment and retention in Hong Kong is reviewed here to highlight the current difficulties in coping with increasing blood demand from an ageing population, stringent donor eligibility criteria and quality requirement in the blood collection. With a systemic analysis of the donation pattern, proposal is put forward to tackle the challenging problems. Medknow Publications 2008-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2798765/ /pubmed/20041076 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6247.42691 Text en © Asian Journal of Transfusion Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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An update of blood donor recruitment and retention in Hong Kong
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