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Associations of health status with subsequent blood donor behavior—An alternative perspective on the Healthy Donor Effect from Donor InSight

INTRODUCTION: In donor health research, the ‘Healthy Donor Effect’ (HDE) often biases study results and hampers their interpretation. This refers to the fact that donors are a selected ‘healthier’ subset of a population due to both donor selection procedures and self-selection. Donors with long vers...

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Autores principales: van den Hurk, Katja, Zalpuri, Saurabh, Prinsze, Femmeke J., Merz, Eva-Maria, de Kort, Wim L. A. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5648214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29049357
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186662