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Blood transfusion: blood safety

Canada

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Guideline for investigation of suspected transfusion transmitted bacterial contamination [2008]
  • Transfusion Transmitted Injuries Section - Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Section - Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division

France

• Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology
  • Hypersensitivity Reactions to Blood Components: Document Issued by the Allergy Committee of the French Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency [2011]

Netherlands

• Health Council of the Netherlands
  • Should blood donors be tested for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? [2007]

United Kingdom

• Department of Health UK
  • Blood safety general information

• Health Protection Agency
  • Bloodborne infections in blood donors

United States of America

• Food and Drug Administration
  • Blood & Blood Products

WHO

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Retreat on Blood Safety [2000]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • South-eastern Europe Regional Health Development Centre for Health Safety : current status and future strategies in safe blood and blood components' transnational availability for medical emergencies and special circumstances in south-eastern Europe [2011]

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Blood transfusion safety

• World Health Organization
  • The Blood Cold Chain [2002]
  • Aide-Mémoire on Quality Systems for Blood Safety [2002]
  • Aide-Mémoire on Blood Safety for National Blood Programmes [2002]
  • Recommendations from the WHO Regional Workshop on Quality Assurance and Safety of Plasma Derivatives [2001]
  • Blood Safety and Clinical Technology Strategy 2000-2003 [2001]
  • Universal access to safe blood and blood products for transfusion
  • Blood Tranfusion Safety

Articles in journals

• Blood Transfusion
  • Diagnostic algorithm for HBV safe transfusion [2009]

• Hematology
  • Reducing the Risk of Blood Transfusion [2001]

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