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Researchers at University of Minnesota release new data on transfusion medicine

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, August 3rd, 2007

Scientists discuss in "The United States' potential blood donor pool: estimating the prevalence of donor-exclusion factors on the pool of potential donors" new findings in transfusion medicine. "Efforts to ensure donor and recipient safety have reduced the population of eligible voluntary blood donors. The current method for determining eligible blood donors in a population using only age as the criterion for excluding donors poorly reflects the large constellation of factors known to cause donor deferrals," scientists in the United States report.

"An epidemiologic model has been developed to determine the prevalence of donor exclusions and thus improve the estimate of...

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