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Blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention. However, the safety of the donor and the recipient is paramount. This study was aimed at determining the blood donation deferral pattern of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of the prospective donor...

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Autores principales: Okoroiwu, Henshaw Uchechi, Asemota, Enosakhare Aiyudubie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6647304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31331326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4352-2
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description BACKGROUND: Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention. However, the safety of the donor and the recipient is paramount. This study was aimed at determining the blood donation deferral pattern of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of the prospective donors’ data of University of Calabar Donor clinic within the period of March 2015 to February 2016 was conducted. Data were extracted from the donor register and analyzed. Prospective donors were screened and interviewed for causes of temporary and permanent deferrals. RESULT: Out of the 1886 screened prospective donors, 164 (8.69%) were deferred. Though the minority of the donor population, female donors had the highest deferral rate (33.33%). There were 31.10 and 68.90% cases of temporary and permanent deferrals, respectively. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) was the highest (31.71%) cause of overall deferral as well as permanent deferral. Anemia was the major (21.95%) cause of temporary deferral as well as the second cause of overall deferrals. Commercial and replacement donors constituted 68.28 and 31.71% of the deferral cases, respectively. CONCLUSION: HBV was found to be the overall leading cause of deferral in the studied area. This outcome poses a public health concern and should elicit measures to curb the infection rate.
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spelling pubmed-66473042019-07-31 Blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern Nigeria Okoroiwu, Henshaw Uchechi Asemota, Enosakhare Aiyudubie BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Blood transfusion is a life-saving intervention. However, the safety of the donor and the recipient is paramount. This study was aimed at determining the blood donation deferral pattern of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of the prospective donors’ data of University of Calabar Donor clinic within the period of March 2015 to February 2016 was conducted. Data were extracted from the donor register and analyzed. Prospective donors were screened and interviewed for causes of temporary and permanent deferrals. RESULT: Out of the 1886 screened prospective donors, 164 (8.69%) were deferred. Though the minority of the donor population, female donors had the highest deferral rate (33.33%). There were 31.10 and 68.90% cases of temporary and permanent deferrals, respectively. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) was the highest (31.71%) cause of overall deferral as well as permanent deferral. Anemia was the major (21.95%) cause of temporary deferral as well as the second cause of overall deferrals. Commercial and replacement donors constituted 68.28 and 31.71% of the deferral cases, respectively. CONCLUSION: HBV was found to be the overall leading cause of deferral in the studied area. This outcome poses a public health concern and should elicit measures to curb the infection rate. BioMed Central 2019-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6647304/ /pubmed/31331326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4352-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Asemota, Enosakhare Aiyudubie
Blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern Nigeria
title Blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern Nigeria
title_full Blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern Nigeria
title_fullStr Blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern Nigeria
title_short Blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern Nigeria
title_sort blood donors deferral prevalence and causes in a tertiary health care hospital, southern nigeria
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6647304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31331326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4352-2
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