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To protect transfusion recipients from transfusion‐transmissible infections, blood donors are deferred from donating after recent tattooing or piercing. To explore to what extent and how this deferral impacts donor availability,… Click to show full abstract
To protect transfusion recipients from transfusion‐transmissible infections, blood donors are deferred from donating after recent tattooing or piercing. To explore to what extent and how this deferral impacts donor availability, we performed an international study to investigate how many donors were deferred for a recent tattoo or piercing and how many of these donors returned to donate.
Keywords:
return rates;
donor return;
whole blood;
blood;
blood donor;
study
Journal Title: Vox Sanguinis
Year Published: 2022
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Journal Title: Vox Sanguinis
Year Published: 2022
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