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The supply chain of migrant blood donors: an organisational interview study

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Migrant blood donors are underrepresented worldwide resulting in shortages of compatible blood products. Prior studies focused on individual barriers and motivators of potential blood donors, but no studies addressed organisational factors of the blood supply chain. This s...

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Autores principales: Klinkenberg, Elisabeth F., Langi Sasongko, Praiseldy K. B., de Kort, Wim L. A. M., van Weert, Julia C. M., Fransen, Mirjam P., Huis in ‘t Veld, Elisabeth M. J.
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30623984
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/vox.12748
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author Klinkenberg, Elisabeth F.
Langi Sasongko, Praiseldy K. B.
de Kort, Wim L. A. M.
van Weert, Julia C. M.
Fransen, Mirjam P.
Huis in ‘t Veld, Elisabeth M. J.
author_facet Klinkenberg, Elisabeth F.
Langi Sasongko, Praiseldy K. B.
de Kort, Wim L. A. M.
van Weert, Julia C. M.
Fransen, Mirjam P.
Huis in ‘t Veld, Elisabeth M. J.
author_sort Klinkenberg, Elisabeth F.
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description BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Migrant blood donors are underrepresented worldwide resulting in shortages of compatible blood products. Prior studies focused on individual barriers and motivators of potential blood donors, but no studies addressed organisational factors of the blood supply chain. This study explored the perceptions and experiences in recruitment and retention of migrant – and potentially rare‐blood donors among staff members within the blood supply chain and identified obstacles and solutions in this chain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was conducted at Sanquin, the national blood supply organisation of the Netherlands. Qualitative in‐depth interviews were done among key staff members (N = 17). Expert validity was assessed in three feedback meetings. RESULTS: Seven staff members believed there is a shortage of migrant blood donors, while five believed there is not. However, there was a consensus that it may become a problem in the future due to demographic changes. The perceived obstacles to recruit and retain migrant donors were difficulties in determining how many migrant donors are needed and recruiting them, excluding potentially rare donors prior to donation, limited use of extended phenotyping and high blood typing and frozen storage costs. The possible solutions to increase blood pool diversity lay in registering donor ethnicity, specialised information provision for donors, reconsidering eligibility criteria and optimising blood typing strategies. CONCLUSION: Whilst recruitment of migrant blood donors is perceived by staff as difficult, various organisational policies and guidelines seem to hinder retention. Improvements in the blood supply chain may be achieved by addressing logistics, current procedures and registration of ethnicity.
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spelling pubmed-68503422019-11-18 The supply chain of migrant blood donors: an organisational interview study Klinkenberg, Elisabeth F. Langi Sasongko, Praiseldy K. B. de Kort, Wim L. A. M. van Weert, Julia C. M. Fransen, Mirjam P. Huis in ‘t Veld, Elisabeth M. J. Vox Sang Blood Component Collection and Production BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Migrant blood donors are underrepresented worldwide resulting in shortages of compatible blood products. Prior studies focused on individual barriers and motivators of potential blood donors, but no studies addressed organisational factors of the blood supply chain. This study explored the perceptions and experiences in recruitment and retention of migrant – and potentially rare‐blood donors among staff members within the blood supply chain and identified obstacles and solutions in this chain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was conducted at Sanquin, the national blood supply organisation of the Netherlands. Qualitative in‐depth interviews were done among key staff members (N = 17). Expert validity was assessed in three feedback meetings. RESULTS: Seven staff members believed there is a shortage of migrant blood donors, while five believed there is not. However, there was a consensus that it may become a problem in the future due to demographic changes. The perceived obstacles to recruit and retain migrant donors were difficulties in determining how many migrant donors are needed and recruiting them, excluding potentially rare donors prior to donation, limited use of extended phenotyping and high blood typing and frozen storage costs. The possible solutions to increase blood pool diversity lay in registering donor ethnicity, specialised information provision for donors, reconsidering eligibility criteria and optimising blood typing strategies. CONCLUSION: Whilst recruitment of migrant blood donors is perceived by staff as difficult, various organisational policies and guidelines seem to hinder retention. Improvements in the blood supply chain may be achieved by addressing logistics, current procedures and registration of ethnicity. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-01-09 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6850342/ /pubmed/30623984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/vox.12748 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Vox Sanguinis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Society of Blood Transfusion This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Klinkenberg, Elisabeth F.
Langi Sasongko, Praiseldy K. B.
de Kort, Wim L. A. M.
van Weert, Julia C. M.
Fransen, Mirjam P.
Huis in ‘t Veld, Elisabeth M. J.
The supply chain of migrant blood donors: an organisational interview study
title The supply chain of migrant blood donors: an organisational interview study
title_full The supply chain of migrant blood donors: an organisational interview study
title_fullStr The supply chain of migrant blood donors: an organisational interview study
title_full_unstemmed The supply chain of migrant blood donors: an organisational interview study
title_short The supply chain of migrant blood donors: an organisational interview study
title_sort supply chain of migrant blood donors: an organisational interview study
topic Blood Component Collection and Production
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30623984
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/vox.12748
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