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The Canadian donor health assessment questionnaire: can it be improved?Mindy Goldman
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 46:2169-75. 2006..The Canadian DHAQ has been developed over many years on an ad hoc basis and has never been evaluated in light of cognitive science principles. In addition, donor attitudes about its mode of administration have not been assessed...- Recent Canadian experience with targeted hepatitis C virus lookbackMindy Goldman
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 46:690-4. 2006..Targeted hepatitis C virus (HCV) lookback studies have been performed in Canada since 1995. The yield of HCV lookback has not been reassessed since the introduction of improved HCV screening tests... - Proceedings of a consensus conference: towards an understanding of TRALIMindy Goldman
Canadian Blood Services, Medical, Scientific and Research Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario K1G 4J5, Canada
Transfus Med Rev 19:2-31. 2005.... - Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates: where are we today?M Goldman
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Vox Sang 87:90-2. 2004 - The donor health assessment questionnaire: potential for format change and computer-assisted self-interviews to improve donor attentionMindy Goldman
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Canada
Transfusion 47:1595-600. 2007..The Canadian donor health assessment questionnaire (DHAQ) has developed gradually over many years. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the format and method of administration of the DHAQ influences donor attentiveness... - Evaluation of the confidential unit exclusion form: the Canadian Blood Services experienceS F O'Brien
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Vox Sang 98:138-44. 2010..We evaluated its benefit in Canada, and reported its utility in predicting transmissible-disease (TD) and high-risk behaviour... - Understanding non-disclosure of deferrable risk: a study of blood donors with a history of intravenous drug useS F O'Brien
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Transfus Med 20:15-21. 2010..Failure to acknowledge risk behaviour is complex, and some degree of non-disclosure may be an inherent part of pre-donation screening... - The impact of increasing the upper age limit of donation on the eligible blood donor population in CanadaW Fan
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Transfus Med 22:395-403. 2012..Using population prevalence data for deferrable diseases/conditions we estimated the Canadian population eligible to donate according to three upper-age limit scenarios... - The Canadian blood donor health assessment questionnaire: lessons from history, application of cognitive science principles, and recommendations for changeSheila F O'Brien
Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON, Canada
Transfus Med Rev 21:205-22. 2007..Thus, we believe that redesigning the DHAQ will improve the quality and accuracy of the donors' answers to screening questions... - Canadian experience with detection of bacterial contamination in apheresis plateletsSandra Ramirez-Arcos
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 47:421-9. 2007..In Canada, both blood suppliers, Héma-Québec (HQ) and Canadian Blood Services (CBS), implemented bacterial testing in apheresis platelets (PLTs) with an automated microbial detection system (BacT/ALERT, bioMérieux)... - Face-to-face interviewing in predonation screening: lack of effect on detected human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus infectionsSheila F O'Brien
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 46:1380-7. 2006..The impact of face-to-face interviewing and of the format of the Donor Health Assessment Questionnaire (DHAQ) have not been evaluated... - Predictive ability of sequential surveys in determining donor loss from increasingly stringent variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease deferral policiesSheila F O'Brien
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 46:461-8. 2006..This study examines the ability of sequential surveys to predict actual travel deferrals and the operational validity of travel questions... - Evaluation of pooled cultures for bacterial detection in whole blood-derived plateletsSandra Ramirez-Arcos
Infectious Diseases and Donor and Transplantation Services, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 45:1275-9. 2005..In this study, the sensitivity and specificity of BacT/ALERT cultures performed on pools derived from PRP PLTs are reported... - Proceedings of a consensus conference: blood-borne HIV and hepatitis-optimizing the donor selection processJo Anne Chiavetta
Canadian Blood Services, HEMA QUEBEC, Canada
Transfus Med Rev 17:1-30. 2003.... - Clinical and laboratory practices in investigation of suspected transfusion-transmitted bacterial infection: a survey of Canadian hospitalsA N Traore
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Vox Sang 96:157-9. 2009..If there is no residual product in the component bag, 36% of respondents would use a segment to perform testing. Guidelines could be helpful in improving and standardizing these practices... - Skin disinfection methods: prospective evaluation and postimplementation resultsSandra Ramirez-Arcos
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 50:59-64. 2010..Optimal skin disinfection ensures blood safety. In this study, efficacies of the two-step skin disinfection methods used at Canadian Blood Services (CBS) and two one-step methods produced by different manufacturers were compared... - Impact of a policy to permit the return of donors repeat-reactive to the Abbott PRISM antibody to hepatitis B core antigen assaySheila F O'Brien
Department of Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 49:271-7. 2009..The aim was to evaluate the impact of anti-HBc testing on donor loss and to evaluate the effectiveness of this policy... - Assessment of a travel question to identify donors with risk of Trypanosoma cruzi: operational validity and field testingSheila F O'Brien
Department of Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 48:755-61. 2008..The operational validity of a travel question suitable for donor screening was tested, and it was field-tested... - Effect of changing the age criteria for blood donorsM Goldman
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Vox Sang 92:368-72. 2007..The upper age limit for allogeneic blood donation varies among countries and blood operators. We assessed the impact of the removal of the upper age limit for donation in Canada from December 2004 to January 2006... - Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates: incidence, significance, and preventionM A Blajchman
Department of Pathology and Medicine, McMaster University, and Canadian Blood Services, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Semin Hematol 38:20-6. 2001.... - Proceedings of a consensus conference: the screening of blood donors for variant CJDMorris A Blajchman
Canadian Blood Services, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Transfus Med Rev 18:73-92. 2004..This contentious issue is of potential considerable importance to transfusion medicine personnel worldwide, as well as to future recipients of allogeneic blood components... - Declining hepatitis C rates in first-time blood donors: insight from surveillance and case-control risk factor studiesSheila F O'Brien
National Epidemiology and Surveillance, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 48:902-9. 2008..Hepatitis C virus (HCV) rates have decreased steadily in first-time donors in Canada since testing was implemented but reasons are unclear. A description of factors that may have played a role in this decline is reported... - Donor recruitment researchD Devine
Canadian Blood Services, 1800 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, ON K1G 4JSE, Canada
Vox Sang 93:250-9. 2007 - Donor's understanding of the definition of sex as applied to predonation screening questionsS F O'Brien
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Vox Sang 94:329-33. 2008..We aimed to determine how donors define sex when answering screening questions... - Clinical outcomes following institution of the Canadian universal leukoreduction program for red blood cell transfusionsPaul C Hebert
University of Ottawa Centre for Transfusion Research, and Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
JAMA 289:1941-9. 2003..A number of countries have implemented a policy of universal leukoreduction of their blood supply, but the potential role of leukoreduction in decreasing postoperative mortality and infection is unclear... - Epidemiology of hepatitis B in Canadian blood donorsSheila F O'Brien
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 48:2323-30. 2008..Evaluating the potential for further risk reduction requires a better understanding of the relationship between donor selection criteria, immigration from endemic countries, and public health vaccination strategies... - Consequences of transfusion of platelet antibody: a case report and literature reviewKaterina Pavenski
Department of Medicine, and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 48:1981-9. 2008..Passive transfer of platelet (PLT) antibody by blood transfusion can lead to severe thrombocytopenia, bleeding, and an acute transfusion reaction... - Screening of Canadian Blood Services donors for severe immunoglobulin A deficiencyDouglas S Palmer
National Testing Laboratory, Epidemiology and Surveillance, Donor and Transplantation Services, Head Office, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 50:1524-31. 2010..05 mg/dl)... - West Nile virus in 2006 and 2007: the Canadian Blood Services' experienceSheila F O'Brien
Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 50:1118-25. 2010..In 2007, Canada experienced a larger epidemic than in previous years providing an opportunity to evaluate the ID-NAT triggering algorithm in higher-risk areas... - Impact of declining fertility rates in Canada on donor options in blood and marrow transplantationDavid S Allan
Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, The Ottawa Hospital, and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 15:1634-7. 2009..The issue of declining fertility rates appears to be regional, and the impact on transplantation will be more pronounced in Canada than in other developed nations... - Reassessment of deferrals for tattooing and piercingMindy Goldman
Canadian Blood Services Donor and Transplantation Services, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 49:648-54. 2009..In August 2005, the Canadian Blood Services decreased the deferral period for tattooing and ear or body piercing from 12 to 6 months. This study assessed the impact of this change on blood safety and availability... - Improving the bacteriological safety of platelet transfusionsMorris A Blajchman
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, HSC 2N34, Hamilton, Notario, Canada L8N 3Z5
Transfus Med Rev 18:11-24. 2004..All of these approaches, either collectively or individually, hold considerable promise that the prevalence of adverse events associated with bacteria in platelet products will decline significantly in the very foreseeable future... - Challenges in developing a bacterial detection systemMindy Goldman
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Vox Sang 83:125-7. 2002 - Declining value of preoperative autologous donationMindy Goldman
HEMA QUEBEC, Montreal, Canada
Transfusion 42:819-23. 2002..Changes in transfusion practice motivated an examination of blood use from 1993 to 2000 of patients participating in the Héma-Québec PABD program... - Blood donor selection and screening: strategies to reduce recipient riskMarc Germain
Medical Affairs, HEMA QUEBEC, Sainte Foy, Quebec, Canada
Am J Ther 9:406-10. 2002..Finally, some safety measures are purely precautionary, such as the deferral of donors who have traveled to certain countries affected by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)... - Prenatal management of alloimmune thrombocytopenia of the fetusC P Engelfriet
Sanquin Diagnostic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vox Sang 84:142-9. 2003 - Fatal septic shock associated with transfusion-transmitted Serratia marcescensSandra Ramirez-Arcos
Transfusion 46:679-81. 2006 - A predonation screening question for occupational exposure to simian foamy virus: a preliminary donor survey in CanadaQi-Long Yi
Transfusion 47:949-50. 2007 - Integrative tumor board: recurrent breast cancer or new primary? UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care CenterBradly P Jacobs
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, 94143 1726, USA
Integr Cancer Ther 2:289-300. 2003 - Establishment of an immunoglobulin A-deficient blood donor registry with a simple in-house screening enzyme-linked immunosorbent assayLouis Thibault
Research and Development and Medical Affairs, HEMA QUEBEC, Sainte Foy, Quebec, Canada
Transfusion 46:2115-21. 2006..To prepare compatible blood components for these patients, blood centers usually maintain a list of IgA-deficient blood donors. An in-house enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to identify new IgA-deficient blood donors...