Use of a rapid electronic survey methodology to estimate blood donors' potential exposure to emerging infectious diseases: Application of a statistically representative sampling methodology to assess risk in US blood centers.

CONCLUSION: The structured donor demographic sample-based data provided an assessment of blood donors' potential exposure to an emerging pathogen that was 63% larger than the U.S. population-based estimate. This illustrates the need for tailored blood donor-based EID risk assessments that provide more specific demographic risk intelligence and can inform appropriate regulatory decision making.
PMID: 32743798 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Transfusion - August 2, 2020 Category: Hematology Authors: Whitaker BI, Walderhaug M, Hinkins S, Steele WR, Custer B, Kessler D, Leparc G, Gottschall JL, Bialkowski W, Stramer SL, Dodd RY, Crowder L, Vahidnia F, Shaz BH, Kamel H, Rebosa M, Stern M, Anderson SA Tags: Transfusion Source Type: research