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Efficiency and safety of varying the frequency of whole blood donation: randomised trial of 45,000 donors
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Background Limits on the frequency of whole blood donation exist primarily to safeguard donor health. However, there is substantial variation across blood services in the maximum frequency of donations allowed. We compared standard practice in the UK with shorter inter-donation intervals used in other countries.
Methods 45,263 whole blood donors were recruited between 2012 and 2014 from 25 centres across England (ISRCTN24760606). Using a computer-ba...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31928-1
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NHS Blood and Transplant
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National Institute for Health Research
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Medical Research Council
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British Heart Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Lancet Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Journal website
- Volume:
- 390
- Issue:
- 10110
- Pages:
- 2360-2371
- Publication date:
- 2017-09-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-21
- DOI:
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
- Source identifiers:
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729352
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pubs:729352
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uuid:0ad1a9fe-f44c-4172-8ef2-52dfb55e8ac0
- Local pid:
- pubs:729352
- Deposit date:
- 2017-09-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Di Angelantonio et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access funded by British Heart Foundation, available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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