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Motivations to donate blood: demographic comparisonsSimone A Glynn
Transfusion 42:216-25. 2002..Understanding blood donor motivations is crucial to improving effectiveness of donor recruitment and retention programs...
Factors influencing the decision to donate: racial and ethnic comparisonsSimone A Glynn
Westat, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Transfusion 46:980-90. 2006..Understanding factors that encourage different racial and ethnic groups to donate is crucial for donor recruitment and retention...
Attitudes toward blood donation incentives in the United States: implications for donor recruitmentSimone A Glynn
Westat, Rockville, Md 20850 2062, USA
Transfusion 43:7-16. 2003..The potential effectiveness of various donation incentive programs may vary by demographics, first-time or repeat status, and collection site...
Effect of a national disaster on blood supply and safety: the September 11 experienceSimone A Glynn
Westat, Rockville, Md 20850 2062, USA
JAMA 289:2246-53. 2003..An understanding of characteristics of blood donors donating in times of crisis may help predict blood supply safety and donor return patterns...
role of altruistic behavior, empathetic concern, and social responsibility motivation in blood donation behaviorWhitney Randolph Steele
Westat, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Transfusion 48:43-54. 2008..Previous studies have not quantitatively evaluated these characteristics in donors or examined how they relate to donation frequency...
A linked donor-recipient study to evaluate parvovirus B19 transmission by blood component transfusionSteven H Kleinman
Westat Inc, Rockville, MD, USA
Blood 114:3677-83. 2009..These data do not support the need to routinely screen blood donations with a sensitive B19V DNA nucleic acid assay...
Factors influencing donor returnKaren S Schlumpf
Westat, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Transfusion 48:264-72. 2008..To predict future blood donation behavior and improve donor retention, it is important to understand the determinants of donor return...
Convenience, the bane of our existence, and other barriers to donatingGeorge B Schreiber
Westat, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Transfusion 46:545-53. 2006..To prevent donor loss and improve retention, it is important to understand the major deterrents to blood donation and to identify factors that can be effectively addressed by blood centers...
Behavioral and infectious disease risks in young blood donors: implications for recruitmentMark A Damesyn
Westat, Rockville, Maryland 20850-2062, USA
Transfusion 43:1596-603. 2003..The message not to donate when a behavioral risk is present or for obtaining HIV tests needs to be reinforced in younger donors...
Impact of changes in viral marker screening assaysUsha K Sharma
Westat, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Transfusion 43:202-14. 2003..Before considering changes in screening tests, blood centers should be aware of, and evaluate, the potential impact on donor loss...
Opinions about donating blood among those who never gave and those who stopped: a focus group assessmentSunitha M Mathew
Health Studies, Westat, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Transfusion 47:729-35. 2007..Enlisting new donors and encouraging previous donors to return are vital to increasing collections...
Prevalence and quantitation of parvovirus B19 DNA levels in blood donors with a sensitive polymerase chain reaction screening assaySteven H Kleinman
Westat, 1650 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Transfusion 47:1756-64. 2007..Blood donor parvovirus B19 DNA prevalence with sensitive nucleic acid test assays has recently been demonstrated to be higher than that found with assays designed to detect high viral titers in the plasma manufacturing sector...
Dynamics of viremia in early hepatitis C virus infectionSimone A Glynn
Westat, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Transfusion 45:994-1002. 2005..Animal inoculation studies are in progress to evaluate if transfusion of low-level viremic plasma can transmit HCV infection...
Lapsed donors: an untapped resourceGeorge B Schreiber
Westat, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Transfusion 43:17-24. 2003..Although prior studies report lower viral prevalence rates in repeat donors than those in first-time donors, it is unknown if this relationship holds after a lapse of several years between donations...
Blood-donor perceptions of health history screening with a computer-assisted self-administered interviewAna M Sanchez
Westat, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Transfusion 43:165-72. 2003..The potential for CASI to improve donor screening and increase appropriate self-deferrals should be balanced against the possible loss of reluctant safe donors...
HIV seroconverting donors delay their return: screening test implicationsGeorge B Schreiber
Westat, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Transfusion 42:414-21. 2002..One possible explanation is that HIV seroconverting donors delay their return because of the recent practice of risk behaviors and/or signs and symptoms associated with primary infection...
The 2003 West Nile virus United States epidemic: the America's Blood Centers experienceSteven Kleinman
Westat, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Transfusion 45:469-79. 2005..This study demonstrates that a national collaborative effort facilitates timely surveillance of blood donor infectious disease prevalence rates...
Frequency of HBV DNA detection in US blood donors testing positive for the presence of anti-HBc: implications for transfusion transmission and donor screeningSteven H Kleinman
Westat, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Transfusion 43:696-704. 2003..An estimate of the rate of HBV DNA-positive, anti-HBc-positive units is important for evaluating the need for anti-HBc donor screening, especially in the context of HBV NAT...
Increasing blood availability by changing donation patternsGeorge B Schreiber
Westat, Inc, 1650 Research Blvd, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Transfusion 43:591-7. 2003..Donation patterns were examined to characterize returning first-time donors and predict the impact on blood availability of decreasing the number of nonreturning donors...
The donor notification process from the donor's perspectiveSteven Kleinman
Westat, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Transfusion 44:658-66. 2004..Despite large numbers of blood donors being notified of abnormal infectious disease screening results, there has been little scientific study of the effects of this process...
Determinants of return behavior: a comparison of current and lapsed donorsMarc Germain
Microbiology and Epidemiology, HEMA QUEBEC, 1009 du Vallon Road, Sainte Foy, Quebec, Canada
Transfusion 47:1862-70. 2007..There is a need to identify factors explaining why some people stop donating blood...
Blood supply safety: an NHLBI perspectiveSimone A Glynn
Transfusion 48:1541-4. 2008
International application of the incidence rate/window period modelSimone A Glynn
Transfusion 42:966-72. 2002
Correlates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA negativity among HCV-seropositive blood donorsMichael P Busch
Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Transfusion 46:469-75. 2006..Factors associated with resolution of viremia are not well defined. Implementation of routine nucleic acid testing (NAT) of blood donors has yielded a large data set for analysis of demographic correlates of resolved viremia...
Relative sensitivities of licensed nucleic acid amplification tests for detection of viremia in early human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus infectionMichael P Busch
Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Transfusion 45:1853-63. 2005..We compared these assays with respect to detection of RNA in early HIV and HCV infection...
Detection of HIV-1 and HCV infections among antibody-negative blood donors by nucleic acid-amplification testingSusan L Stramer
American Red Cross, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
N Engl J Med 351:760-8. 2004....
ABO and Rh(D) phenotype frequencies of different racial/ethnic groups in the United StatesGeorge Garratty
American Red Cross Blood Services, Los Angeles, California 90006, USA
Transfusion 44:703-6. 2004..Commonly quoted ABO/Rh(D) frequencies in the US are usually from relatively small studies with racial or ethnic categories often judged by name or appearance...
How special is a 'special' interval: modeling departure from length-biased sampling in renewal processesGlen A Satten
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Biostatistics 5:145-51. 2004..Our approach is motivated by the question of whether there is evidence that repeat blood donors who develop antibodies to HIV or other viral infections change their donation pattern in some way because of seroconversion...
A new strategy for estimating risks of transfusion-transmitted viral infections based on rates of detection of recently infected donorsMichael P Busch
Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Transfusion 45:254-64. 2005....
West Nile virus infections projected from blood donor screening data, United States, 2003Michael P Busch
Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 12:395-402. 2006..In addition to preventing transfusion-transmitted WNV infection, donor screening can serve as a tool to monitor seasonal incidence in the general population...
