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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"blood donation"”.
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Redesign the blood donation service model - what should the blood donation service be like in the digital age?
There is always a shortage of blood supply in the United States (U.S.). According to The American Red Cross (Blood Facts and Statistics, 2015), every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood, and more than 41,000 blood donations are needed every day. However, although 38% of the U.S. population …
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A genealogy of the gift : blood donation in London, 1921-1946
… thesis discusses the historical association of blood donation with narratives of 'the gift'. It is a history of blood-giving in London between the emergence of the city's first voluntary blood donor panel in 1921 and the establishment of the National Blood Transfusion Service in 1946, and …
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Bloody geographies: relating, connecting, giving and caring in blood donation and transfusion
… giving, care, and relatedness felt by blood donors and recipients, given the institutional setting of therapeutic blood exchange in the UK. In it, I use a multi-sited auto-ethnographic approach to examine five blood donor-/recipient-participant views on blood donation and transfusion. …
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The intersection of the HIV epidemic and blood donation in South Africa
… people living with HIV (PLWH) affects the local blood transfusion services (BTS) in multiple ways, including the recruitment of safe donors, the demand for blood and the development of blood safety policies. The latter includes the deferral of persons at risk of recently acquired HIV and …
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The Comparison of Three Attitude Models for The Prediction of Blood Donation Behavior
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Epidemiological studies of whole blood donation in the UK: Donor safety and retention
Background NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), the sole provider of blood to the National Health Service (NHS) in England, UK, must ensure a safe and sustainable supply of blood, whilst protecting donor health and wellbeing. Objectives The primary objective of this thesis is to advance the evidence …
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Developing tailored approaches from multi-arm randomised trials with an application to blood donation
… better healthcare. The National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) in England aims to move towards a more personalised service and the National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) call has mandated research to “identify, characterise and exploit …
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Effects of blood donation and iron homeostasis on medium and long term cardiometabolic outcomes
… several decades of research, the relevance of blood donation and iron homeostasis on cardiometabolic outcomes remains unclear. Objectives. This thesis aims to reliably characterise the relevance of blood donation and iron homeostasis on cardiometabolic outcomes while overcoming some limitations …
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Cord Blood Collection in Pregnant Women for Stem Cell Research
Umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells form commonly banked types of human tissue. Confusion remains about sources of stem cells and their use. Birth is a once in a lifetime opportunity with 74 million births per year in the world and four million occur in the United States. Cord blood contains …
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An investigation of a theoretical model of willingness to donate blood
The Australian Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service (ARCBTS) in Western Australian faces a major problem with periodic shortages of blood components. These shortages are expected to become more frequent and severe as demand continues to increase at a faster rate than supply. Given that only five …
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Recommended Interventions to Reduce the Risk of Iron Deficiency in Blood Donors
Numerous studies indicate that US blood donors, especially women, have a high prevalence of iron deficiency. Iron is lost with each blood donation, and since donors are eligible to donate blood every eight weeks, it is a challenge to maintain iron balance in frequent blood donors. Prior to blood …
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Epidemiology of blood donor health in the context of increased frequency of donation: The INTERVAL trial
Blood donation is central to maintaining adequate blood supply for routine hospital demands and ensuring preparedness for emergency situations. As blood donation is a voluntary activity, it is important that blood collection services ensure that blood donor health is not negatively impacted in the …
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Blood Bank Management Information System
… proven that no human being can survive without blood. It is for this reason that blood banks were introduced; to help in the collecting, separating, and storing blood. A blood bank is a place for stocking blood donations from donors. To provide web based communication there are numbers of online …
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Cultural and Political Geographies of the AIDS Crisis in Ireland
… two embodied practices; AIDS Quilting and blood donation. Drawing on a Butlerian conceptualisation of precarity and precariousness, it configures a landscape of HIV/AIDS care provision that is implicated in the production of the precarious body and the precarity of the state. My study of …
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Knowledge Level of Adolescents About HIV and AIDS in a Frontier Community
… transmission (specifically mosquito bites and blood donation) showed a knowledge deficit among some adolescents. Primary sources of HIV information were school, television and parents. In collaboration with school systems, advanced practice nurses may be able to assist with HIV prevention …
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A Future Once Deferred: Re-envisioning Men Who Have Sex With Men as Prospective Blood Donors
… men who have sex with men (MSM) as a prospective blood donor population in New Zealand, at a time when international and local policy is shifting toward individualised assessments. Three overarching aims guide this work: to descriptively characterize MSM with different donation experiences; to …
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Blood, society and the gift: An ethnography of change in the gift relationship
… whole body part transplantation, transfusion and donation is well documented and has added to discourse about who gives and receives and how. Commentary about another body part – blood – is, it is argued here, less well developed (Sanner, 2001; Lock, 2004; Scheper-Hughes and Wacquant, 2006; Shaw, …
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Development of Original and Notable Techniques for Protein Analysis, Native Identification, and Characterisation
… the University Hospital patients, and the blood donation services of Zürich.
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