Anemia and hemoglobinopathies

Guidelines, reviews, epidemiology

Anemia

• Afghanistan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Reducing Anemia Prevalence in Afghanistan: Socioeconomic Correlates and the Particular Role of Agricultural Assets [2016]
• Africa
  • SAGE Open Medicine
    • Anemia in African malnourished pre-school children: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Prevalence and types of anemia among people with tuberculosis in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Angola
  • Porto Biomedical Journal
    • Anemia in preschool children from Angola: a review of the evidence [2020]
• Australia
  • BMJ Open
    • Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia associated with body mass index in Australian adults: a cross-sectional study [2022]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • The management of peri-operative anaemia in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery in Australia and New Zealand: a prospective cohort study [2022]
• Bangladesh
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Determinants of anemia among 6–59 months aged children in Bangladesh: evidence from nationally representative data [2016]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Inequality, chronic undernutrition, maternity, and diabetes mellitus as the determinant of anemia among ever-married women in Bangladesh [2021]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Differentials in the prevalence of anemia among non-pregnant, ever-married women in Bangladesh: multilevel logistic regression analysis of data from the 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey [2015]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence of Anemia among Children and Adolescents of Bangladesh: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]
  • Public Health Nutrition
    • Behind the scene of the prevalence of anaemia: an extended way of reporting [2023]
• Brazil
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Anemia among indigenous women in Brazil: findings from the First National Survey of Indigenous People’s Health and Nutrition [2016]
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Factors associated with anemia and vitamin A deficiency in Brazilian children under 5 years old: Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition (ENANI-2019) [2023]
  • Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
    • Prevalence of anemia in Brazilian adults and elderly [2019]
• Cambodia
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Anemia in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study of anemia, socioeconomic status and other associated risk factors in rural women [2015]
    • Anemia in Cambodia: prevalence, etiology and research needs [2012]
• Cameroon
  • BioMed Research International
    • Determining Prevalence of Anemia and Its Associated Factors in Cameroon: A Multilevel Analysis [2021]
• Canada
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Blood donation and anemia [2016]
• Cape Verde
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Prevalence of Anaemia and Associated Factors among Children below Five Years of Age in Cape Verde, West Africa [2014]
• China
  • BMC Public Health
    • Increased prevalence and incidence of anemia among adults in transforming rural China: two cross-sectional surveys [2015]
  • BMJ Open
    • Prevalence and health correlates of anaemia among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study [2020]
  • BMJ Paediatrics Open
    • Anaemia prevalence and its associated factors in children under 5 years in Western China: a systematic review [2022]
  • EClinicalMedicine
    • Prevalence and intervention of preoperative anemia in Chinese adults: A retrospective cross-sectional study based on national preoperative anemia database [2021]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence and Temporal Trend (2016–2018) of Anaemia among 6–23-Month-Old Infants and Young Children in China [2021]
    • Prevalence of Anemia and its Associated Factors among Chinese 9-, 12-, and 14-Year-Old Children: Results from 2014 Chinese National Survey on Students Constitution and Health [2020]
    • Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Association with Anaemia Prevalence and Haemoglobin Levels in Chinese Older Adults [2020]
    • Prevalence and Risk Factors for Anemia in Non-pregnant Childbearing Women from the Chinese Fifth National Health and Nutrition Survey [2019]
  • Nutrients
    • Regional Differences in the Prevalence of Anaemia and Associated Risk Factors among Infants Aged 0–23 Months in China: China Nutrition and Health Surveillance [2021]
• East Africa
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
    • Magnitudes of Anemia and Its Determinant Factors Among Lactating Mothers in East African Countries: Using the Generalized Mixed-Effect Model [2021]
  • Nutrition
    • Mapping, trends, and factors associated with anemia among children aged under 5 y in East Africa [2023]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Anemia and its associated factors among women of reproductive age in eastern Africa: A multilevel mixed-effects generalized linear model [2020]
• East Asia
  • Journal of Global Health
    • The temporal trends of prevalence and years lived with disability of anaemia in China, Japan, and South Korea, from 1990 to 2021: Results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 [2024]
• Ecuador
  • PLoS ONE
    • Anemia in women of reproductive age in Ecuador: Data from a national survey [2020]
• Ethiopia
  • African Health Sciences
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and predictors of anemia among children in Ethiopia [2020]
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Optimizing machine learning models for predicting anemia among under-five children in Ethiopia: insights from Ethiopian demographic and health survey data [2025]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Household environment associated with anaemia among children aged 6-59 months in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of Ethiopia demographic and health survey (2005-2016) [2024]
    • Childhood undernutrition mediates the relationship between open defecation with anemia among Ethiopian children: a nationally representative cross-sectional study [2024]
    • Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among children aged 6-23 months, in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta analysis [2023]
    • Multilevel proportional odds modeling of anaemia prevalence among under five years old children in Ethiopia [2023]
    • Decision-making autonomy of women and other factors of anemia among married women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of a countrywide survey [2021]
  • BMC Research Notes
    • The contribution of dietary and non-dietary factors to socioeconomic inequality in childhood anemia in Ethiopia: a regression-based decomposition analysis [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Spatio-temporal distribution and associated factors of anaemia among children aged 6–59 months in Ethiopia: a spatial and multilevel analysis based on the EDHS 2005–2016 [2021]
    • Anaemia prevalence and associated factors among lactating mothers in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2005 and 2011 demographic and health surveys [2015]
  • British Journal of Nutrition
    • Micronutrients and socio-demographic factors were major predictors of anaemia among the Ethiopian population [2023]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Coexistence of Anaemia and Stunting among Children Aged 6-59 Months in Ethiopia: Findings from the Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Study [2023]
  • Journal of Nutritional Science
    • Disparities in the prevalence and risk factors of anaemia among children aged 6–24 months and 25–59 months in Ethiopia [2020]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Anaemia and its determinants among young children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia (2005–2016) [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Prevalence Rate and Associated Risk Factors of Anaemia among under Five Years Children in Ethiopia [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Application of machine learning methods for predicting childhood anaemia: Analysis of Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey of 2016 [2024]
    • Trend and factors associated with anemia among women reproductive age in Ethiopia: A multivariate decomposition analysis of Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey [2023]
    • Prevalence and associated factors of anemia among adolescent girls in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
    • Geographically weighted regression analysis of anemia and its associated factors among reproductive age women in Ethiopia using 2016 demographic and health survey [2022]
    • Spatial variations and determinants of anemia among under-five children in Ethiopia, EDHS 2005–2016 [2021]
    • Spatiotemporal patterns of anemia among lactating mothers in Ethiopia using data from Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys (2005, 2011 and 2016) [2020]
    • Prevalence and determinants of anemia among young (15–24 years) women in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey data [2020]
    • Individual and community level factors associated with anemia among children 6—59 months of age in Ethiopia: A further analysis of 2016 Ethiopia demographic and health survey [2020]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Burden and determinants of anemia among lactating women in Ethiopia: evidence from demographic health survey [2024]
    • Determinants of anemia severity levels among children aged 6-59 months in Ethiopia: Multilevel Bayesian statistical approach [2023]
  • Systematic Reviews
    • Prevalence of anemia among school-age children in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Risk factors for anemia in children under 6 years of age in Ethiopia: analysis of the data from the cross-sectional Malaria Indicator Survey, 2007 [2013]
  • Women's Health
    • Menstrual abnormality, maternal illiteracy, and household factors as main predictors of anemia among adolescent girls in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
• Europe
  • British Society for Haematology
    • The use of next-generation sequencing in the diagnosis of rare inherited anaemias: A Joint BSH/EHA Good Practice Paper [2022]
  • European Hematology Association
    • The EHA Research Roadmap: Anemias [2021]
  • European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
    • Approach to anaemia in gastrointestinal disease: A position paper by the ESPGHAN Gastroenterology Committee [2025]
• France
  • Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine
    • Management and prevention of anemia (acute bleeding excluded) in adult critical care patients [2020]
• Germany
  • Advances in Therapy
    • Estimating the Epidemiological and Economic Impact of Implementing Preoperative Anaemia Measures in the German Healthcare System: The Health Economic Footprint of Patient Blood Management [2020]
• Ghana
  • BMC Public Health
    • Adherence to daily food-based dietary recommendations and its association with anemia among Ghanaian women [2025]
    • Prevalence of anemia among under-5 children in the Ghanaian population: estimates from the Ghana demographic and health survey [2014]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Trends and inequalities in anaemia prevalence among children aged 6-59 months in Ghana, 2003-2022 [2024]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Risk factors for anaemia among Ghanaian women and children vary by population group and climate zone [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Association between health insurance membership and anaemia among children under-five years. Evidence from Ghana [2020]
• India
  • BMC Geriatrics
    • Association of anaemia with indoor air pollution among older Indian adult population: multilevel modelling analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional study [2024]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Prevalence of anemia in India: a systematic review, meta-analysis and geospatial analysis [2025]
    • Trends and predictors of severe and moderate anaemia among children aged 6-59 months in India: an analysis of three rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data [2024]
    • Prevalence and determinants of anaemia among women of reproductive age in Aspirational Districts of India: an analysis of NFHS 4 and NFHS 5 data [2024]
    • To what extent classic socio-economic determinants explain trends of anaemia in tribal and non-tribal women of reproductive age in India? Findings from four National Family Heath Surveys (1998-2021) [2023]
    • Key drivers of reversal of trend in childhood anaemia in India: evidence from Indian demographic and health surveys, 2016-21 [2023]
    • Socio-economic inequality in anaemia among men in India: a study based on cross-sectional data [2021]
    • Anaemia among mother-father-child pairs in India: examining co-existence of triple burden of anaemia in a family [2021]
  • BMJ Open
    • Prevalence of anaemia among married women with recent birth history and high-risk fertility behaviour: secondary data analysis of the National Family Health Survey-India (2019-21) [2024]
  • British Journal of Nutrition
    • Shooting shadows: India's struggle to reduce the burden of anaemia [2023]
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Nutritional Anemia in Children: Recommendations of the Joint Committee of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Chapter and Pediatric and Adolescent Nutrition Society of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics [2022]
  • Indian Journal of Public Health
    • Impact of the Updated World Health Organization Guideline on Hemoglobin Cutoffs on National Anemia Prevalence Estimates in 6–59-month-old Indian Children [2025]
    • Regional Disparity of Anemia among Children and Its Determinants: A Study of National Family Health Survey-5 [2024]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • A district-level geospatial analysis of anaemia prevalence among rural men in India, 2019-21 [2024]
  • Jornal de Pediatria
    • Socio-economic and demographic determinants of childhood anemia [2015]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Haemoglobin thresholds to define anaemia in a national sample of healthy children and adolescents aged 1–19 years in India: a population-based study [2021]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Anaemia in Indians aged 10-19 years: Prevalence, burden and associated factors at national and regional levels [2022]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Test-Treat and Talk Anemia Camp - Guidance Note for State Programme Managers [2019]
    • Anaemia Mukt Bharat
  • Nutrients
    • Anaemia in India and Its Prevalence and Multifactorial Aetiology: A Narrative Review [2024]
  • PLOS Global Public Health
    • Is the burden of anaemia among Indian adolescent women increasing? Evidence from Indian Demographic and Health Surveys (2015-21) [2023]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Trends in prevalence and determinants of severe and moderate anaemia among women of reproductive age during the last 15 years in India [2023]
    • Prevalence of anemia among reproductive women in different social group in India: Cross-sectional study using nationally representative data [2023]
• Indonesia
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Intersectoral and eco-nutritional approaches to resolve persistent anemia in Indonesia [2020]
    • Anaemia prevalence over time in Indonesia: estimates from the 1997, 2000, and 2008 Indonesia Family Life Surveys [2015]
  • Epidemiology and Health
    • Maternal pre-pregnancy anemia and childhood anemia in Indonesia: a risk assessment using a population-based prospective longitudinal study [2022]
  • Geospatial Health
    • Spatial distribution and identifying biochemical factors affecting haemoglobin levels among women of reproductive age for each province in Indonesia: A geospatial analysis [2022]
  • Nutrients
    • Anemia in Breastfeeding Women and Its Impact on Offspring's Health in Indonesia: A Narrative Review [2024]
• International
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency across indications: a systematic review [2015]
  • Annals of Surgery
    • Recommendations From the International Consensus Conference on Anemia Management in Surgical Patients (ICCAMS) [2023]
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
    • Review of intervention products for use in the prevention and control of anemia [2023]
    • Integrating and coordinating programs for the management of anemia across the life course [2023]
    • Accelerating action to reduce anemia: Review of causes and risk factors and related data needs [2023]
  • Blood
    • A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010 [2014]
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Preanalytic and analytic factors affecting the measurement of haemoglobin concentration: impact on global estimates of anaemia prevalence [2021]
    • The burden of anaemia among displaced women and children in refugee settings worldwide, 2013–2016 [2019]
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Anemia
  • Lancet Global Health
    • National, regional, and global estimates of anaemia by severity in women and children for 2000-19: a pooled analysis of population-representative data [2022]
    • Global, regional, and national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and non-pregnant women for 1995–2011: a systematic analysis of population-representative data [2013]
  • Lancet Haematology
    • Prevalence, years lived with disability, and trends in anaemia burden by severity and cause, 1990-2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 [2023]
  • Perioperative Medicine
    • “Simplified International Recommendations for the Implementation of Patient Blood Management” (SIR4PBM) [2017]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Global prevalence of anemia in displaced and refugee children: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
• Iran
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and determinants of anemia among Iranian population aged >=35 years: A PERSIAN cohort–based cross-sectional study [2022]
• Israel
  • Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
    • Reducing infantile anemia: insight on patterns of process and outcome indicators by ethnicity and socioeconomic class during a 10-year intervention program and 5 years after [2022]
• Japan
  • Scientific Reports
    • Prevalence of and factors related to anemia among Japanese adult women: Secondary data analysis using health check-up database [2019]
• Jordan
  • BMC Public Health
    • Prevalence and sociodemographic determinants of anemia among ever-married women of reproductive age in Jordan: insights from the 2023 Jordan population and family health survey [2025]
  • Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
    • The prevalence and determinants of anaemia in Jordan [2019]
    • Prevalence and risk factors of anaemia among ever-married women in Jordan [2019]
• Laos
  • Anemia
    • Prevalence of Anemia and Its Associate Factors among Women of Reproductive Age in Lao PDR: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among children aged 6–59 months in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A multilevel analysis [2021]
• Latin America
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Prevalence of anemia among Indigenous children in Latin America: a systematic review [2022]
  • Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
    • Double Burden of Excess Weight and Anemia in Latin American Children up to 2019 [2020]
• Lesotho
  • African Health Sciences
    • Household and individual risk factors of anaemia among under-5 children in Lesotho [2020]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Joint modelling of anaemia and stunting in children less than five years of age in Lesotho: a cross-sectional case study [2022]
• Liberia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Multilevel analysis of anemia and associated factors among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) in Liberia: Evidence from the 2019/20 Liberia demographic and health survey data [2024]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Public Health
    • An unacceptably high burden of anaemia and it's predictors among young women (15-24 years) in low and middle income countries; set back to SDG progress [2023]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Anaemia in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries: progress towards the 2025 global nutrition target [2022]
  • EClinicalMedicine
    • Prevalence and changes of anemia among young children and women in 47 low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2018 [2021]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Associations between type of blood collection, analytical approach, mean haemoglobin and anaemia prevalence in population-based surveys: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Journal of Nutrition
    • Trends in the Intraindividual Double Burden of Overweight/Obesity and Anemia among Adult Women Living in 33 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Secondary Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 2000-2019 [2023]
  • Nature Medicine
    • Anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018 [2021]
  • Nutrients
    • Anemia among Women of Reproductive Age: An Overview of Global Burden, Trends, Determinants, and Drivers of Progress in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Is child anemia associated with early childhood development? A cross-sectional analysis of nine Demographic and Health Surveys [2024]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Prevalence and factors associated with anemia in women of reproductive age across low- and middle-income countries based on national data [2023]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Use of point-of-care haemoglobin tests to diagnose childhood anaemia in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2024]
• Malaysia
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • The Prevalence of Anemia and Its Associated Factors among Older Persons: Findings from the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2015 [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Haematological Reference Intervals in a Multiethnic Population [2014]
• Maldives
  • Ministry of Health Maldives
    • National guideline for management of Anemia in Children [2024]
• Mali
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Sociodemographic factors associated with anemia among reproductive age women in Mali; evidenced by Mali malaria indicator survey 2021: spatial and multilevel mixed effect model analysis [2023]
  • Journal of Nutritional Science
    • Prevalence and contributing factors of anaemia among children aged 6-24 months and 25-59 months in Mali [2023]
• Myanmar
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Prevalence of Anemia and Its Risk Factors Among Lactating Mothers in Myanmar [2014]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Association between blood hemoglobin levels, anemia, and body mass index in children and women of Myanmar: findings from a nationally representative health study [2024]
• Nepal
  • BMJ Open
    • Factors affecting anaemia among women of reproductive age in Nepal: a multilevel and spatial analysis [2021]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Trends and determinants of anaemia in women of Nepal: a multilevel analysis [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and risk factors of childhood anemia in Nepal: A multilevel analysis [2020]
• Nigeria
  • Anemia
    • Statistical Modeling of Determinants of Anemia Prevalence among Children Aged 6–59 Months in Nigeria: A Cross-Sectional Study [2020]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Ecological analysis of demographic-, nutritional- and housing-related factors associated with anaemia among women of reproductive age group in Nigeria [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of childhood anemia: Potential sociodemographic and dietary factors in Nigeria [2022]
  • Women's Health
    • Determinants of anaemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in Nigeria: A cross-sectional study using secondary data from Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey 2018 [2022]
• Peru
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Inequalities in anemia among Peruvian children aged 6-59 months: A decomposition analysis [2023]
  • Nutrients
    • Women's Autonomy and Anemia in Children under Five Years of Age: A Peruvian Population-Based Survey [2023]
  • Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pu´blica
    • Hemoglobin levels for determining anemia: new World Health Organization guidelines and adaptation of the national standard [2024]
  • Rural and Remote Health
    • Rural and urban disparities in anemia among Peruvian children aged 6-59 months: a multivariate decomposition and spatial analysis [2022]
• Republic of Guinea
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Anemia among Children under 5 Years in Guinea [2021]
• Republic of Korea
  • Annals of Laboratory Medicine
    • Complete Blood Count Reference Intervals and Patterns of Changes Across Pediatric, Adult, and Geriatric Ages in Korea [2018]
  • BMC Geriatrics
    • High anemia prevalence in Korean older adults, an advent healthcare problem: 2007–2016 KNHANES [2020]
  • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
    • Changes in the prevalence of anemia in Korean adolescents, 1998–2018 [2021]
• Russia, South Africa
  • BMC Public Health
    • Factors that influence anemia prevalence: a comparative study of datasets from Russia and South Africa [2025]
• Rwanda
  • Global Health Action
    • Trends in the prevalence of concurrent anaemia and stunting among infants and young children in Rwanda: a cross-sectional study from 2010 to 2020 [2025]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Determinants of coexistence of undernutrition and anemia among under-five children in Rwanda; evidence from 2019/20 demographic health survey: Application of bivariate binary logistic regression model [2024]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Council of Health Insurance
    • Anemia Indication Update [2024]
    • Anemia Clinical Pathway [2020]
• South and Southeast Asia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and factors associated with anemia among women of reproductive age in seven South and Southeast Asian countries: Evidence from nationally representative surveys [2020]
• South Asia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of anemia in diabetes mellitus in South Asia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
    • Prevalence of and factors associated with anaemia in women of reproductive age in Bangladesh, Maldives and Nepal: Evidence from nationally-representative survey data [2021]
• Spain
  • Revista Clínica Española (English Edition)
    • Executive summary of the consensus document on the management of perioperative anemia in Spain [2024]
  • Revista Española de Anestesiología y Reanimación (English Edition)
    • Management of peri-surgical anemia in elective surgery. Conclusions and recommendations according to Delphi-UCLA methodology [2024]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Prevalence of anemia and its associated factors among married women in 19 sub-Saharan African countries [2021]
  • BioMed Research International
    • Variations and Determinants of Anemia among Reproductive Age Women in Five Sub-Saharan Africa Countries [2021]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Access to basic sanitation facilities reduces the prevalence of anaemia among women of reproductive age in sub-saharan Africa [2023]
  • BMJ Open
    • Household cooking fuel type and childhood anaemia in sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of cross-sectional surveys of 123, 186 children from 29 countries [2021]
  • British Journal of Haematology
    • Transfusion management of severe anaemia in African children: a consensus algorithm [2021]
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Prevalence and associated factors of severity levels of anemia among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel ordinal logistic regression analysis [2024]
    • Anaemia among women of reproductive age in selected sub-Saharan African countries: multivariate decomposition analyses of the demographic and health surveys data 2008-2018 [2024]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Key Determinants of Anemia among Youngsters under Five Years in Senegal, Malawi, and Angola [2020]
    • A Scoping Review of the Risk Factors Associated with Anaemia among Children Under Five Years in Sub-Saharan African Countries [2020]
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Anaemia among under-five children: Is maternal marriage at 18th birthday and above protective? Evidence from 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Relationship between history of hormonal contraceptive use and anaemia status among women in sub-Saharan Africa: A large population-based study [2023]
    • Multilevel analysis of determinants of anemia among young women (15-24) in sub-Sahara Africa [2022]
    • Prevalence and determinants of severity levels of anemia among children aged 6–59 months in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel ordinal logistic regression analysis [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • The epidemiological landscape of anemia in women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
• Sudan
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Anaemia prevalence and determinants in under 5 years children: findings of a cross-sectional population-based study in Sudan [2020]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Prevalence and determinants of anaemia in women of reproductive age in Sudan: analysis of a cross-sectional household survey [2020]
  • Journal of Medicine and Life
    • Prevalence and classification of anemia among children in Sudan: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
• Tanzania
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Targeted and Population-Wide Interventions Are Needed to Address the Persistent Burden of Anemia among Women of Reproductive Age in Tanzania [2022]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Anemia status and its determinants among reproductive-age women in Tanzania: A multi-level analysis of Tanzanian demographic and health survey data [2024]
• Thailand
  • Scientific Reports
    • Prevalence of anemia and association with mortality in community-dwelling elderly in Thailand [2022]
• Uganda
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Prevalence and Factors Associated with Anemia Among Children Under 5 Years of Age—Uganda, 2009 [2015]
  • PLOS Global Public Health
    • Spatial variation and attributable risk factors of anaemia among young children in Uganda: Evidence from a nationally representative survey [2023]
• United Kingdom
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Prevalence and patterns of testing for anaemia in primary care in England: a cohort study using an electronic health records database [2025]
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Identification and management of preoperative anaemia in adults: A British Society for Haematology Guideline update [2024]
    • Guidelines on the management of anaemia and red cell transfusion in adult critically ill patients [2013]
  • Centre for Perioperative Care
    • Centre for Perioperative Care anaemia guideline: implications for anaesthesia [2023]
    • Anaemia in the Perioperative Pathway [2022]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Evidence review for preoperative management of anaemia [2020]
  • NHS England
    • Treatment of iron overload for transfused and non-transfused patients with chronic inherited anaemias (all ages) [2022]
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
    • Anaemia: migrant health guide
• United States
  • American College of Physicians
    • Treatment of Anemia in Patients With Heart Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians [2013]
  • American Journal of the Medical Sciences
    • Acute blood loss anemia in hospitalized patients is associated with adverse outcomes: An analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample [2024]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Anemia Prevalence: United States, August 2021–August 2023 [2024]
    • Anemia
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Prevalence of Appropriate Testing for Incident Anemia in the US Department of Veterans Affairs [2021]
  • Journal of Community Health
    • Adolescent Anemia Screening During Ambulatory Pediatric Visits in the United States [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Prevalence of Anemia and Moderate-Severe Anemia in the US Population (NHANES 2003-2012) [2016]
• Vietnam
  • BMC Public Health
    • Burden and causes of anemia in Vietnam: insights from the global burden of disease data [2024]
• West and Central Africa
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Levels and trends of adolescent girl’s undernutrition and anemia in West and Central Africa from 1998 to 2017 [2021]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Guideline on haemoglobin cutoffs to define anaemia in individuals and populations [2024]
    • Accelerating anaemia reduction: a comprehensive framework for action: web annex: WHO recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis and management of anaemia [2023]
    • Accelerating anaemia reduction: a comprehensive framework for action [2023]
    • WHO methods and data sources for mean haemoglobin and anaemia estimates in women of reproductive age and pre-school age children 2000-2019 [2021]
    • Global anaemia reduction efforts among women of reproductive age: impact, achievement of targets and the way forward for optimizing efforts [2020]
    • Nutritional anaemias: tools for effective prevention and control [2017]
    • The global prevalence of anaemia in 2011 [2015]
    • Global nutrition targets 2025: anaemia policy brief [2014]
    • Haemoglobin concentrations for the diagnosis of anaemia and assessment of severity [2011]
    • Worldwide prevalence of anaemia 1993-2005 : WHO global database on anaemia [2008]
    • Prevalence of anaemia in women of reproductive age (aged 15-49) (%)
    • Prevalence of anaemia in non-pregnant women (aged 15-49) (%)
    • Prevalence of anaemia in children aged 6–59 months (%)
    • Number of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49 years) with anaemia (thousands)
    • Number of non-pregnant women (aged 15-49 years) with anaemia (thousands)
    • Number of children aged 6–59 months with anaemia (thousands)
    • Anaemia: Fact sheet
    • Anaemia in women and children
    • Anaemia
• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Are Countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region on Track towards Meeting the World Health Assembly Target for Anemia? A Review of Evidence [2021]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Paediatric anaemia prevalence trends in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a 20-year analysis by income level [2025]
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • Anaemia
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  • Topic
    • Thalassemia
    • Sickle cell anemia
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Macrocytic anemia
    • Iron-deficiency anemia
    • Hemolytic anemia
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hemoglobin C disease
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy, anemia in pregnancy
    • Blood transfusion
    • Aplastic anemia
    • Anemia in kidney disease
    • Anemia in cancer

Anemia in cancer

• Canada
  • Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal
    • Hemoglobin matters: Perioperative blood management for oncology patients [2021]
• China
  • Chinese Clinical Oncology
    • Clinical practice guidelines on cancer-related anemia (2012-2013 Edition) [2012]
• Europe
  • European Society for Medical Oncology
    • Management of anaemia and iron deficiency in patients with cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines [2018]
    • Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in the treatment of anaemia in cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for use [2010]
  • Supportive Care in Cancer
    • A European patient record study on diagnosis and treatment of chemotherapy-induced anaemia [2014]
• Europe, United States
  • AME Medical Journal
    • Erithropoiesis stimulating agents in the treatment of chemotherapy induced anemia: what do guidelines say? [2023]
• Germany
  • Anemia
    • Antianemic Treatment of Cancer Patients in German Routine Practice: Data from a Prospective Cohort Study—The Tumor Anemia Registry [2016]
  • Supportive Care in Cancer
    • Anemia diagnosis and therapy in malignant diseases: implementation of guidelines-a representative study [2024]
• International
  • Frontiers in Oncology
    • Anemia in patients receiving anticancer treatments: focus on novel therapeutic approaches [2024]
• Low and middle income countries
  • South Asian Journal of Cancer
    • Practical Clinical Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Cancer Associated Anemia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2023]
• Poland
  • Oncology in Clinical Practice
    • Anaemia in cancer patients — Expert Group recommendations [2017]
• Romania
  • Memo
    • APPLY: A prospective observational study of clinical practice patterns of darbepoetin alfa use in patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia in Romania [2018]
• Spain
  • Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica
    • SEOM clinical guidelines for anaemia treatment in cancer patients (2020) [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (epoetin and darbepoetin) for treating anaemia in people with cancer having chemotherapy (including review of TA142) [2014]
• United States
  • American Journal of Hematology
    • Diagnosis and treatment of cancer-related anemia [2014]
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology
    • Management of cancer-associated anemia with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents: ASCO/ASH clinical practice guideline update [2019]
    • American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Society of Hematology clinical practice guideline update on the use of epoetin and darbepoetin in adult patients with cancer [2010]
  • Blood
    • How I treat cancer-associated anemia [2020]
  • Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
    • Anemia in Myelodysplastic Syndrome
  • National Comprehensive Cancer Network
    • NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Version 2.2025 [2025]
    • NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Hematopoietic Growth Factors, Version 1.2022 [2022]
    • Cancer- and chemotherapy-induced anemia [2012]
  • Oncologist
    • The First 2 Years of Biosimilar Epoetin for Cancer and Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia in the U.S.: A Review from the Southern Network on Adverse Reactions [2021]
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  • Topic
    • Anemia

Anemia in kidney disease

• Asia
  • Nephrology
    • Prevalence and Treatment Patterns of Anaemia in Individuals With Chronic Kidney Disease Across Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2025]
• Asia-Pacific
  • Kidney Medicine
    • Anemia Management in Peritoneal Dialysis: Perspectives From the Asia Pacific Region [2021]
• Brazil
  • Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
    • Guidelines on the treatment of anemia of chronic renal failure using recombinant human erythropoietin: Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular Guidelines Project: Associação Médica Brasileira – 2014 [2014]
• China
  • Advances in Therapy
    • Inside ANEMIA of CKD: Projecting the Future Burden of Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease and Benefits of Proactive Management: A Microsimulation Model of the Chinese Population [2024]
• Developing countries
  • International Journal of Nephrology
    • Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials on Androgens versus Erythropoietin for Anaemia of Chronic Kidney Disease: Implications for Developing Countries [2012]
• Europe
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Achievement of renal anemia KDIGO targets by two different clinical strategies – a European hemodialysis multicenter analysis [2019]
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
    • Anaemia and quality of life in chronic kidney disease: a consensus document from the European Anaemia of CKD Alliance [2024]
• France
  • PLoS ONE
    • Incidence, prevalence, and treatment of anemia of non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease: A retrospective database study in France [2023]
• International
  • Advances in Therapy
    • Burden of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease: Beyond Erythropoietin [2021]
  • Annals of Translational Medicine
    • The efficacy of Roxadustat for the treatment of anemia in dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease patients: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials [2021]
  • Biomedicines
    • Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease-A Narrative Review of Its Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management [2024]
  • Childhood Kidney Diseases
    • Anemia in children with chronic kidney disease [2023]
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
    • Low hemoglobin at hemodialysis initiation: an international study of anemia management and mortality in the early dialysis period [2020]
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents for anaemia in adults with chronic kidney disease: a network meta-analysis [2023]
    • Hypoxia-inducible factor stabilisers for the anaemia of chronic kidney disease [2022]
  • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
    • Risk Factors for Anemia in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2020]
  • Frontiers in Medicine
    • Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease: From Pathophysiology and Current Treatments, to Future Agents [2021]
  • International Journal of Nephrology
    • The Impact of CKD Anaemia on Patients: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Clinical Outcomes—A Systematic Literature Review [2020]
  • KDIGO
    • Novel anemia therapies in chronic kidney disease: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference [2023]
    • Controversies in optimal anemia management: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Conference [2021]
    • Anemia in CKD
  • Kidney Medicine
    • Iron-Deficiency Anemia in CKD: A Narrative Review for the Kidney Care Team [2023]
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
    • Anaemia in CKD-treatment standard [2024]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Investigating the relationship between erythropoiesis-stimulating agents and mortality in hemodialysis patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
    • The efficacy and safety of roxadustat for the treatment of anemia in non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease patients: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials [2022]
  • Systematic Reviews
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of factors contributing to post-kidney transplant anemia and the effect of erythropoietin-stimulating agents [2024]
• Ireland
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
    • Quality of care and practice patterns in anaemia management at specialist kidney clinics in Ireland: a national study [2018]
• Italy
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Unmet needs about iron deficiency in peritoneal dialysis: a Delphi consensus panel [2022]
  • Journal of Nephrology
    • Consensus commentary and position of the Italian Society of Nephrology on KDIGO controversies conference on novel anemia therapies in chronic kidney disease [2024]
    • Prevalence, incidence, and treatment of anaemia in patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease: findings from a retrospective real-world study in Italy [2023]
  • Società Italiana di Ematologia
    • Key concepts and critical issues on epoetin and filgrastim biosimilars. A position paper from the Italian Society of Hematology, Italian Society of Experimental Hematology, and Italian Group for Bone Marrow Transplantation [2011]
• Japan
  • International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease
    • Successful creation of an anemia management algorithm for hemodialysis patients [2015]
  • Kidney International Reports
    • Diagnosis Patterns of CKD and Anemia in the Japanese Population [2020]
  • Nephron
    • How the Target Hemoglobin of Renal Anemia Should Be? [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease in Japan: A nationwide, cross-sectional cohort study using data from the Japan Chronic Kidney Disease Database (J-CKD-DB) [2020]
  • Renal Replacement Therapy
    • 2015 Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy: Guidelines for Renal Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease [2017]
• Lithuania
  • Scientific World Journal
    • Renal Anemia Control in Lithuania: Influence of Local Conditions and Local Guidelines [2013]
• Republic of Korea
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • The Prevalence and Management of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: Result from the KoreaN Cohort Study for Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease (KNOW-CKD) [2017]
    • Erythropoiesis-stimulating Agents and Anemia in Patients with Non-dialytic Chronic Kidney Disease [2016]
• Spain
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
    • Opportunities to improve the management of anemia in peritoneal dialysis patients: lessons from a national study in routine clinical practice [2023]
  • Nefrología
    • Epidemiology and treatment of renal anaemia in Spain: RIKAS retrospective study [2023]
  • Sociedad Española de Nefrologia
    • Unresolved aspects in the management of renal anemia, a Delphi consensus of the Anemia Group of the S.E.N [2023]
    • Iron replacement therapy in the management of anaemia in non-dialysis Chronic kidney disease patients: Perspective of the Spanish Nephrology Society Anaemia Group [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Anemia and its predictors among chronic kidney disease patients in Sub-Saharan African countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Sweden
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
    • Factors affecting pre-end-stage kidney disease haemoglobin control and outcomes following dialysis initiation: a nationwide study [2021]
    • Contemporary management of anaemia, erythropoietin resistance and cardiovascular risk in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease: a nationwide analysis [2020]
• Taiwan
  • Nephrology
    • Anaemia management in patients with chronic kidney disease: Taiwan practice guidelines [2014]
• Turkey
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence of anemia in predialysis chronic kidney disease: Is the study center a significant factor? [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • Journal of Medical Economics
    • Development of a health economic model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of roxadustat in treating anemia associated with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease [2023]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Roxadustat for treating symptomatic anaemia in chronic kidney disease [2022]
    • Evidence reviews for aspirational haemoglobin target range for children and young people with CKD [2021]
    • Chronic kidney disease: assessment and management [2021]
  • Right Decisions
    • Anaemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD): NHS Highland renal service (Guidelines)
  • UK Kidney Association
    • UK kidney association clinical practice guideline: update of anaemia of chronic kidney disease [2025]
• United States
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
    • Update on Anemia in ESRD and Earlier Stages of CKD: Core Curriculum 2018 [2018]
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Prospective payment system and racial/ethnic disparities: a national retrospective observational study in anaemia complication among end-stage renal disease patients in the US [2020]
    • Trends in anemia care in non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients in the United States (2006–2015) [2018]
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    • Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents (ESAs) for Treatment of Anemia in Adults with CKD Including Patients on Dialysis and Patients not on Dialysis
  • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
    • Bundled-Rate Legislation for Medicare Reimbursement for Dialysis Services: Implications for Anemia Management with ESAs [2010]
  • Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
    • Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Kidney International Supplements
    • Anemia management for home dialysis including the new US public policy initiative [2021]
  • Kidney360
    • Effect of Anemia on Physical Function and Physical Activity in CKD: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2016 [2023]
  • National Kidney Foundation
    • Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Stabilization as an Emerging Therapy for CKD-Related Anemia: Report From a Scientific Workshop Sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • The Cost-Effectiveness of Anemia Treatment for Persons with Chronic Kidney Disease [2016]
    • Prevalence of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Anemia

Aplastic anemia

• Asia
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
    • Monitoring and Treatment of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria in Patients with Aplastic Anemia in Asia: An Expert Consensus [2024]
• China
  • Acta Haematologica
    • Current Treatment Patterns of Aplastic Anemia in China: A Prospective Cohort Registry Study [2019]
  • Journal of Translational Internal Medicine
    • Aplastic Anemia in China [2018]
• Europe
  • European Working Group of Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Severe Aplastic Anemia
    • Consensus for the treatment of severe aplastic anaemia in children and adolescents [2023]
  • Haematologica
    • Outcome of aplastic anemia in adolescence: a survey of the Severe Aplastic Anemia Working Party of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation [2014]
• France
  • Filière de santé maladies rares immuno-hématologiques
    • French National Diagnosis and Care Protocol (PNDS) - Acquired and Inherited Aplastic Anemia [2023]
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Diagnosis and Management of Acquired Aplastic Anemia: Consensus Statement of Indian Academy of Pediatrics [2022]
• International
  • Blood Advances
    • Treatment strategy for acquired pure red cell aplasia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Frontiers in Immunology
    • The state of the art in the treatment of severe aplastic anemia: immunotherapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation in children and adults [2024]
  • Haematologica
    • Diagnostic criteria to distinguish hypocellular acute myeloid leukemia from hypocellular myelodysplastic syndromes and aplastic anemia: recommendations for a standardized approach [2009]
• Italy
  • Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases
    • Diagnosis and management of acquired aplastic anemia in childhood. Guidelines from the Marrow Failure Study Group of the Pediatric Haemato-Oncology Italian Association (AIEOP) [2024]
  • Haematologica
    • Twenty years of the Italian Fanconi Anemia Registry: where we stand and what remains to be learned [2016]
• Japan
  • Blood Advances
    • Incidence of acquired pure red cell aplasia: a nationwide epidemiologic analysis with 2 registry databases in Japan [2022]
• New Zealand
  • Starship
    • Aplastic Anaemia and Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
• Republic of Korea
  • International Journal of Hematology
    • Acquired aplastic anemia in Korean children: treatment guidelines from the Bone Marrow Failure Committee of the Korean Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology [2016]
• Sweden
  • Haematologica
    • Incidence and outcome of acquired aplastic anemia: real-world data from patients diagnosed in Sweden from 2000-2011 [2017]
• Thailand
  • Annals of Hematology
    • Adult aplastic anemia in Thailand: incidence and treatment outcome from a prospective nationwide population-based study [2021]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of adult aplastic anaemia: A British Society for Haematology Guideline [2024]
    • Paediatric amendment to adult BSH Guidelines for aplastic anaemia [2018]
• United States
  • American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
    • Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for the Treatment of Severe Aplastic Anemia: Evidence-Based Guidelines From the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy [2024]
    • Guidelines for Adult Patient Selection and Conditioning Regimens in Cord Blood Transplant Recipients with Hematologic Malignancies and Aplastic Anemia [2021]
  • American Society of Hematology
    • Aplastic Anemia
  • Annals of Hematology
    • Initial management of patients with acquired aplastic anemia in the United States: results from a large national claims database [2025]
  • Blood Advances
    • Modified Delphi panel consensus recommendations for management of severe aplastic anemia [2024]
  • Fanconi Cancer Foundation
    • Fanconi Anemia Clinical Care Guidelines [2020]
  • Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Endocrine Disorders in Fanconi Anemia: Recommendations for Screening and Treatment [2015]
  • North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium
    • Diagnostic work-up for severe aplastic anemia in children: Consensus of the North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Anemia

Blood transfusion

• Americas
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Blood
• Australia
  • Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
    • Blood Management Standard
  • Australian Critical Care
    • ‘True Blood’ The Critical Care Story: An audit of blood sampling practice across three adult, paediatric and neonatal intensive care settings [2015]
  • Australian Red Cross
    • Blood information for health professionals
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
    • Blood and blood products
  • National Blood Authority
    • Clinical guidance
  • NSW Health
    • Blood Management
  • Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
    • Donor Research in Australia: Challenges and Promise [2014]
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion
    • Guidelines for the Administration of Blood Products [2024]
    • Guidelines for the Implementation and Use of Electronic Medical Records for Transfusion [2021]
    • ANZSBT Guidelines
• Bhutan
  • Ministry of Health Bhutan
    • Blood Transfusion Service
• Brazil
  • Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
    • Patient Blood Management Program Implementation: Comprehensive Recommendations and Practical Strategies [2024]
• Canada
  • Alberta Health Services
    • Transfusion Medicine
  • BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office
    • Resources
  • BMJ Open Quality
    • Using Blood Wisely: lessons learnt in establishing a national implementation programme to reduce inappropriate red blood cell transfusion [2024]
  • Canadian Blood Services
    • Clinical Guide to Transfusion
    • Best practices
  • Health Canada
    • Blood Regulations
  • National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products
    • Guidelines & Recommendations
• Canada, United States
  • Society of Thoracic Surgeons
    • STS/SCA/AmSECT/SABM Update to the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Blood Management [2021]
• Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Caribbean Regional Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services, 2. ed. [2013]
• China
  • Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
    • Blood Donor Management in China [2014]
  • Translational Pediatrics
    • The epidemiology of blood transfusion in hospitalized children: a national cross-sectional study in China [2021]
• Denmark
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Monitoring compliance with transfusion guidelines in hospital departments by electronic data capture [2014]
  • Danish Health Authority
    • National clinical guideline for transfusion using blood components [2018]
• Developing countries
  • Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
    • Supply, Demand, and Quality: A Three-Pronged Approach to Blood Product Management in Developing Countries [2021]
• Europe
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
    • Intraoperative transfusion practices in Europe [2016]
  • European Blood Alliance
    • Current transfusion practice and need for new blood products to ensure blood supply for patients with major hemorrhage in Europe [2023]
    • The value to blood establishments of supplier quality audit and of adopting a European Blood Alliance collaborative approach [2014]
  • European Commission
    • Supporting Patient Blood Management (PBM) in the EU [2017]
    • Building national programmes of Patient Blood Management (PBM) in the EU - A guide for health authorities [2017]
    • Blood
  • European Hematology Association
    • The EHA Research Roadmap: Transfusion Medicine [2022]
  • European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
    • Transfusion strategies in bleeding critically ill adults: A clinical practice guideline from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine: Endorsement by the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine [2022]
    • Transfusion strategies in non-bleeding critically ill adults: a clinical practice guideline from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine [2020]
  • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
    • A review of European guidelines for patient blood management with a particular emphasis on antifibrinolytic drug administration for cardiac surgery [2022]
• Germany
  • BJS Open
    • Association of anaemia, co-morbidities and red blood cell transfusion according to age groups: multicentre sub-analysis of the German Patient Blood Management Network Registry [2022]
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
    • German Patient Blood Management Network: effectiveness and safety analysis in 1.2 million patients [2023]
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Transfusion of Packed Red Cells [2015]
• Greece
  • Turkish Journal of Hematology
    • Current Practice in FFP Preparation and Use in Greece: A National Survey [2021]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Medical Journal
    • Hong Kong Society of Clinical Blood Management recommendations for implementation of patient blood management [2020]
• India
  • Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
    • A review of legal, regulatory, and policy aspects of blood transfusion services in India: Issues, challenges, and opportunities [2021]
  • Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology
    • Patient blood management in India - Review of current practices and feasibility of applying appropriate standard of care guidelines. A position paper by an interdisciplinary expert group [2021]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • National Standards for Blood Centres & Blood Transfusion Services [2022]
    • Good Blood Transfusion Practices [2022]
    • Blood Transfusion Services
  • PLoS ONE
    • The clinical demand and supply of blood in India: A National level estimation study [2022]
• International
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
    • Patient blood management interventions do not lead to important clinical benefits or cost-effectiveness for major surgery: a network meta-analysis [2021]
  • British Journal of Haematology
    • Home-based blood transfusion therapy: A systematic review [2022]
  • Canadian Journal of Surgery
    • Fresh whole blood transfusion capability for Special Operations Forces [2015]
  • Critical Care
    • Definitions of massive transfusion in adults with critical bleeding: a systematic review [2023]
  • Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
    • ERAS Cardiac Society turnkey order set for patient blood management: Proceedings from the AATS ERAS Conclave 2023 [2024]
  • Global Journal of Transfusion Medicine
    • Existing and Recommended Legislative Framework for a National Blood Transfusion Policy [2017]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Intraoperative Blood Management Strategies for Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery: The Ottawa Intraoperative Transfusion Consensus [2023]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Innovative blood transfusion strategies to address global blood deserts: a consensus statement from the Blood Delivery via Emerging Strategies for Emergency Remote Transfusion (Blood DESERT) Coalition [2024]
  • Vox Sanguinis
    • The systematic use of evidence-based methodologies and technologies enhances shared decision-making in the 2018 International Consensus Conference on Patient Blood Management [2020]
• Ireland
  • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
    • Health Professionals
• Italy
  • Blood Transfusion
    • A nationwide survey of clinical use of blood in Italy [2021]
    • The use of telemedicine in Italian Blood Banks: a nationwide survey [2014]
    • Ethical and legal aspects of refusal of blood transfusions by Jehovah’s Witnesses, with particular reference to Italy [2014]
  • Minerva Anestesiologica
    • Clinical standards for patient blood management and perioperative hemostasis and coagulation management. Position Paper of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI) [2019]
  • Transfusion and Apheresis Science
    • How to implement of patient blood management pillar 1: An Italian expert opinion based on a “bundles” approach [2020]
• Japan
  • Nagoya Journal of Medical Science
    • The ethics of blood transfusion refusal in clinical practice among legal and medical professions in Japan [2020]
• Kenya
  • Ministry of Health Kenya
    • Kenya National Standards for Blood Transfusion Service, 2nd Edition [2022]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Supply of Blood for Transfusion in Latin America and Caribbean Countries 2016-2017 [2020]
• Lebanon
  • Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
    • Difficulties in achieving a sustainable blood supply: report from the first national seminar on blood donation in Lebanon [2020]
• Malaysia
  • Ministry of Health Malaysia
    • Transfusion Practice Guidelines for Clinical and Laboratory Personnel [2016]
• Maldives
  • Ministry of Health Maldives
    • National Guideline on Clinical Use of Blood – 2022 [2022]
• Myanmar
  • Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
    • Status report of the blood transfusion services in Myanmar [2009]
• New Zealand
  • New Zealand Blood Service
    • Healthcare Professionals
• Nigeria
  • National Blood Service Agency
    • Operational guidelines for blood transfusion practice in Nigeria [2022]
    • Guidelines on appropriate clinical use of blood and blood products in Nigeria [2021]
    • Downloads
• Peru
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health Reviews
    • An Analysis of and Recommendations for the Peruvian Blood Collection and Transfusion System [2016]
• Portugal
  • Acta Médica Portuguesa
    • Improving Awareness about Patient Blood Management in Portugal: A Call for Action Arising from a Delphi Panel [2022]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Clinical, economical and safety impact of ferric carboxymaltose use in Patient Blood Management programme in Portuguese National Health Service hospitals [2022]
• Republic of Korea
  • Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
    • Korean clinical practice guideline for perioperative red blood cell transfusion from Korean Society of Anesthesiologists [2018]
• Seychelles
  • Ministry of Health Seychelles
    • National Blood Services Policy [2023]
• Singapore
  • Health Sciences Authority
    • National Guidelines on Clinical Transfusion [2023]
• Spain
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Quality indicators for Transfusion Medicine in Spain: a survey among hospital transfusion services [2016]
    • The 2013 update of the “Seville Document”: a Spanish multidisciplinary alliance for patient blood management [2013]
    • Spanish Consensus Statement on alternatives to allogeneic blood transfusion: the 2013 update of the “Seville Document” [2013]
    • Guidelines on haemovigilance of post-transfusional iron overload [2013]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Trends and Gaps in National Blood Transfusion Services — 14 Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2014–2016 [2018]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Packed red cells versus whole blood transfusion for severe paediatric anaemia, pregnancy-related anaemia and obstetric bleeding: an analysis of clinical practice guidelines from sub-Saharan Africa and evidence underpinning recommendations [2019]
• Sweden
  • Transfusion
    • Patterns and determinants of blood transfusion in intensive care in Sweden between 2010 and 2018: A nationwide, retrospective cohort study [2022]
• Switzerland
  • PLoS ONE
    • Transfusion practice in anemic, non-bleeding patients: Cross-sectional survey of physicians working in general internal medicine teaching hospitals in Switzerland [2018]
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Dissemination of patient blood management practices in Swiss intensive care units: a cross-sectional survey [2022]
• Tanzania
  • PLoS ONE
    • Risk factors for inappropriate blood requisition among hospitals in Tanzania [2018]
• Turkey
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Peri-operative blood transfusion in elective major surgery: incidence, indications and outcome – an observational multicentre study [2020]
    • A nationwide Turkish movement to implement Patient Blood Management [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
    • Blood transfusion [2024]
  • Association of Anaesthetists
    • Association of Anaesthetists guidelines: the use of blood components and their alternatives [2025]
    • AAGBI guidelines: the use of blood components and their alternatives 2016 [2016]
    • Blood transfusion and the anaesthetist: management of massive haemorrhage [2010]
  • British Blood Transfusion Society
    • UK Transfusion Laboratory Collaborative: minimum standards for staff qualifications, training, competency and the use of information technology in hospital transfusion laboratories 2014 [2014]
    • UK Transfusion Laboratory Collaborative: Recommended minimum standards for hospital transfusion laboratories [2009]
  • British Journal of Haematology
    • Mitigating the impact of blood shortages in England [2024]
  • British Society for Haematology
    • The use of predeposit autologous donation: Guideline prepared by the BSH Blood Transfusion Task Force [2024]
    • Guidelines for the specification, implementation and management of IT systems in hospital transfusion laboratories: A British Society for Haematology Guideline [2024]
    • Haematological management of major haemorrhage: a British Society for Haematology Guideline [2022]
    • The administration of blood components: a British Society for Haematology Guideline [2017]
  • Clinical Medicine
    • Consent for blood transfusion: summary of recommendations from the Advisory Committee for the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO) [2021]
  • Joint United Kingdom (UK) Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee
    • JPAC
  • National Blood Transfusion Committee
    • Triage tool for the rationing of blood for massively bleeding patients during a severe national blood shortage: guidance from the National Blood Transfusion Committee [2020]
    • Emergency preparedness, resilience and response guidance for UK hospital transfusion teams [2020]
    • Recommendations
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Blood transfusion (Quality standard) [2016]
    • Blood transfusion [2015]
  • NHS Blood and Transplant
    • NHSBT clinical guidelines
  • NHS Scotland
    • NHS Scotland National Blood Transfusion Policy [2021]
  • UK Health Security Agency
    • UK blood donor survey overview
  • Vox Sanguinis
    • The prototypical UK blood donor, homophily and blood donation: Blood donors are like you, not me [2024]
• United States
  • American Red Cross
    • A Compendium of Transfusion Practice Guidelines [2021]
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists
    • Practice guidelines for perioperative blood management: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Perioperative Blood Management [2015]
  • Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies
    • Resources
  • Blood Advances
    • Blood transfusion trends in the United States: national inpatient sample, 2015 to 2018 [2021]
  • Blood Transfusion
    • “Transfusion indication RBC (PBM-02)”: gap analysis of a Joint Commission Patient Blood Management Performance Measure at a community hospital [2014]
    • A new perspective on best transfusion practices [2013]
  • Food and Drug Administration
    • Blood Products Advisory Committee
  • Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management
    • SABM Administrative and Clinical Standards for Patient Blood Management Programs [2019]
  • StatPearls
    • Blood Transfusion
  • Transfusion
    • Supplemental findings of the 2019 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey [2021]
  • Transfusion Medicine Reviews
    • Eligibility Considerations for Female Whole Blood Donors: Hemoglobin Levels and Iron Status in a Nationally Representative Population [2023]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Guidance on implementing patient blood management to improve global blood health status [2024]
    • Guidance to identify barriers in blood services using the blood system self-assessment (BSS) tool: web annex: blood system self-assessment [2023]
    • Guidance to identify barriers in blood services using the blood system self-assessment (BSS) tool [2023]
    • Guidance on ensuring a sufficient supply of safe blood and blood components during emergencies [2023]
    • The urgent need to implement patient blood management: policy brief [2021]
    • WHO public consultation on the draft proposal on principles for global consensus on the donation and management of blood, blood components and medical products of human origin [2017]
    • Principles on the donation and management of blood, blood components and other medical products of human origin: report by the Secretariat [2017]
    • Principles for global consensus on the donation and management of blood, blood components and medical products of human origin: report by the Secretariat [2017]
    • Blood donor counselling: implementation guidelines [2014]
    • The Clinical Use of Blood in Medicine, Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Surgery and Anaesthesia, Trauma and Burns [2001]
    • Developing a national policy and guidelines on the clinical use of blood: recommendations [2001]
    • Blood products
• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • Summary report on the Regional meeting of directors of national blood transfusion services, Casablanca, Morocco, 17–19 May 2016 [2016]
• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • WHO South-East Asia Region
    • Blood Transfusion Services in South-East Asia Region. A 5-year review [2018]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy, anemia in pregnancy
    • Blood transfusion: blood safety
    • Anemia

Blood transfusion: blood safety

• Africa
  • EBioMedicine
    • Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus in African blood donors: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • WHO African Region
    • Status of blood availability, safety and quality in the WHO African Region: 2022 survey report [2024]
    • WHO African Region status report on blood availability, safety and quality [2022]
    • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on blood supply and demand in the WHO African Region [2021]
    • Current status on blood safety and availability in the WHO African Region — report of the 2013 survey [2017]
    • Blood Safety
• Australia
  • Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
    • National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (second edition) [2021]
  • Australian Red Cross
    • Adverse events
• Australia, New Zealand
  • Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion
    • Guidelines for Transfusion and Immunohaematology Laboratory Practice [2020]
• Austria
  • Austrian Federal Office for Safety in Health Care
    • Blood safety
• Brazil
  • Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
    • Brazilian blood donation eligibility criteria for dermatologic patients [2012]
  • Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy
    • Prevalence and trends in transfusion-transmissible infections among blood donors in Brazil from 2010 to 2016 [2019]
• Burkina Faso
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Distribution and Incidence of Blood-Borne Infection among Blood Donors from Regional Transfusion Centers in Burkina Faso: A Comprehensive Study [2021]
• Canada
  • Canadian Blood Services
    • Blood safety
  • National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products
    • Infection Prevention and Control Considerations for Return of Blood Components and Products to Inventory
    • Adverse Event Recommendations
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Blood Safety Contribution Program
• China
  • Medicine
    • Overall prevalence of human parvovirus B19 among blood donors in mainland China [2020]
• Croatia
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Error management in blood establishments: results of eight years of experience (2003–2010) at the Croatian Institute of Transfusion Medicine [2012]
• Developing countries
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Towards pathogen inactivation of red blood cells and whole blood targeting viral DNA/RNA: design, technologies, and future prospects for developing countries [2017]
• Economic Cooperation Organization
  • Blood Transfusion
    • The status of blood safety in ECO member states [2015]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Sero-epidemiology and associated factors of HIV, HBV, HCV and syphilis among blood donors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Sero-prevalence of transfusion transmittable infections: HIV, Hepatitis B, C and Treponema pallidum and associated factors among blood donors in Ethiopia: A retrospective study [2020]
• Europe
  • European Blood Alliance
    • Assessing the risk of transfusion-transmitted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a European perspective [2024]
  • European Medicines Agency
    • Epidemiological data on blood transmissible infections - Scientific guideline
• France
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Syphilis testing in blood donors, France, 2007 to 2022 [2024]
• Gabon
  • Blood Transfusion
    • The risk of transfusion-transmitted viral infections at the Gabonese National Blood Transfusion Centre [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and factors associated with transfusion-transmissible infections (HIV, HBV, HCV and Syphilis) among blood donors in Gabon: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
• Germany
  • Paul-Ehrlich-Institut
    • Haemovigilance
• Ghana
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
    • Syphilis screening practices in blood transfusion facilities in Ghana [2016]
  • WHO African Region
    • Ten years of blood safety in the WHO African Region [2025]
• India
  • Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
    • Haemovigilance Programme of India: Comparative analysis of transfusion reactions reported over a 5-year period through two reporting formats and key recommendations for blood safety [2020]
  • Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
    • Legal and ethical issues in safe blood transfusion [2014]
  • Journal of Blood Transfusion
    • Screening Donated Blood for Transfusion Transmitted Infections by Serology along with NAT and Response Rate to Notification of Reactive Results: An Indian Experience [2014]
• International
  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
    • Promoting safe and sustainable national blood systems policy [2022]
  • Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
    • The Impact of COVID-19 on Blood Transfusion Services: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]
• Iran
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Trends and epidemiological analysis of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, human immunodeficiency virus, and human T-cell lymphotropic virus among Iranian blood donors: strategies for improving blood safety [2020]
  • Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences
    • A Systematic Review for Estimation of HTLV-I Infection in the Blood Donors of Iran [2013]
  • Journal of Medicine and Life
    • Proposing a Model for the National Hemovigilance Information System in Iran [2020]
  • Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
    • Emerging Infectious Threats to the Blood Supply: Seroepidemiological Studies in Iran – a Review [2013]
  • Vox Sanguinis
    • Blood supply sufficiency and safety management in Iran during the COVID-19 outbreak [2020]
• Israel
  • Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
    • Should Men who have sex with Men be allowed to donate blood in Israel? [2016]
• Italy
  • Blood Transfusion
    • West Nile virus in the transfusion setting with a special focus on Italian preventive measures adopted in 2008–2012 and their impact on blood safety [2013]
• Jordan
  • Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
    • Seroprevalence rates of transfusion-transmitted infections among blood donors in Jordan [2016]
• Lithuania
  • PLoS ONE
    • Reducing the risk of transfusion-transmitted infectious disease markers in blood and blood component donations: Movement from remunerated to voluntary, non-remunerated donations in Lithuania from 2013 to 2020 [2022]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Progress Toward Strengthening National Blood Transfusion Services — 14 Countries, 2011–2014 [2016]
• Mexico
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
    • Cost-Effectiveness of Blood Donation Screening for Trypanosoma cruzi in Mexico [2016]
• Mozambique
  • Transfusion
    • Evaluation of Preoperative and Intraoperative RBC Transfusion Practices at Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique [2013]
• Nepal
  • Journal of Blood Transfusion
    • Blood Transfusion Practice among Healthcare Personnel in Nepal: An Observational Study [2018]
• Nigeria
  • Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
    • Blood transfusion safety; current status and challenges in Nigeria [2017]
  • National Blood Service Agency
    • National blood safety standards for blood establishments in Nigeria [2021]
• Oman
  • Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
    • Recognition, Investigation and Management of Acute Transfusion Reactions: Consensus guidelines for Oman [2014]
• Pakistan
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Blood safety system reforms in Pakistan [2014]
• Puerto Rico
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Survey of Blood Collection Centers and Implementation of Guidance for Prevention of Transfusion-Transmitted Zika Virus Infection — Puerto Rico, 2016 [2016]
• Qatar
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Prevalence and trends of transfusion transmissible infections among blood donors in the State of Qatar, 2013–2017 [2020]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Medical Journal
    • Prevalence of transfusion-transmitted infections in Saudi Arabia blood donors: A nationwide, cross-sectional study [2022]
• South-Eastern Europe
  • WHO European Region
    • Current status and future strategies in safe blood and blood components’ transnational availability for medical emergencies and special circumstances, in south-eastern Europe [2011]
• Sweden
  • Lancet Digital Health
    • Using routine health-care data to search for unknown transfusion-transmitted disease: a nationwide, agnostic retrospective cohort study [2024]
• Switzerland
  • Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
    • Selective Testing of At-Risk Blood Donors for Trypanosoma cruzi and Plasmodium spp. in Switzerland [2016]
  • Viruses
    • Evolution of Blood Safety in Switzerland over the Last 25 Years for HIV, HCV, HBV and Treponema pallidum [2022]
• Thailand
  • Scientific Reports
    • A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and risk of syphilis among blood donors in Thailand [2025]
• Uganda
  • International Journal of Public Health
    • A Model for Estimating the Burden of Disease of Transfusion-Transmitted Infection [2024]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Preoperative patient blood management during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic [2021]
    • Guideline on the investigation and management of acute transfusion reactions Prepared by the BCSH Blood Transfusion Task Force [2012]
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Occult hepatitis B infection in UK blood donors
    • Blood regulation and safety
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Undeclared pre-exposure or post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP/PEP) use among syphilis-positive blood donors, England, 2020 to 2021 [2023]
  • Infected Blood Inquiry
    • Infected Blood Inquiry
  • Legislation.gov.uk
    • The Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 [2005]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Blood regulation and safety
  • NHS England
    • Changes to the online GP registration service in response to the Infected Bloody Inquiry recommendations [2025]
  • UK Parliament
    • The Blood Safety and Quality Provisional Common Framework [2021]
• United States
  • America's Blood Centers
    • Blood Safety
  • American Journal of Clinical Pathology
    • Transfusion Service Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic [2020]
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Blood Donation and COVID-19: Reconsidering the 3-Month Deferral Policy for Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men [2021]
  • Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies
    • Hemovigilance
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Blood Safety | NHSN
    • Blood Safety
  • Food and Drug Administration
    • Blood & Blood Products
  • Transfusion
    • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on blood donation and transfusions in the United States in 2020 [2023]
    • HIV risk behavior profiles among men who have sex with men interested in donating blood: Findings from the Assessing Donor Variability and New Concepts in Eligibility study [2023]
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy
    • Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Implementing cross-border transfer of domestic plasma to obtain plasma-derived medicinal products: policy guidance [2024]
    • Guidance on implementation of a quality system in blood establishments [2023]
    • User guide for navigating resources on stepwise implementation of haemovigilance systems [2022]
    • Global status report on blood safety and availability 2021 [2022]
    • Maintaining a safe and adequate blood supply and collecting convalescent plasma in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: interim guidance [2021]
    • Guidance on centralization of blood donation testing and processing [2021]
    • Action framework to advance universal access to safe, effective and quality-assured blood products 2020–2023 [2020]
    • Protecting the blood supply during infectious disease outbreaks: guidance for national blood services [2019]
    • The 2016 global status report on blood safety and availability [2017]
    • Establishing external quality assessment programmes for screening of donated blood for transfusion-transmissible infections: implementation guide [2016]
    • A guide to establishing a national haemovigilance system [2016]
    • Blood donor selection: guidelines on assessing donor suitability for blood donation [2012]
    • WHO guidelines on good manufacturing practices for blood establishments, Annex 4, TRS No 961 [2011]
    • Guidelines and Principles for Safe Blood Transfusion Practice [2011]
    • Screening donated blood for transfusion-transmissible infections : recommendations [2009]
    • Universal access to safe blood transfusion [2008]
    • The Blood Cold Chain [2002]
    • Blood tranfusion safety
    • Blood safety and availability: Fact sheet
• WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
  • WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
    • Progress report on the strategic framework for blood safety and availability, 2016-2025 [2024]
    • Progress report for blood safety and availability 2016-2025 [2022]
    • Progress report on implementation of the regional strategic framework for blood safety and availability 2016–2025 [2020]
    • Summary report on the Regional consultation on haemovigilance, Amman, Jordan 4–5 December 2016 [2017]
    • Strategic framework for blood safety and availability 2016–2025 [2017]
    • Regional status report on blood safety and availability 2016 [2017]
• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • WHO South-East Asia Region
    • Blood safety in SEARO
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Blood transfusion

Hemoglobin C disease

• Africa
  • Scientific Reports
    • The distribution of haemoglobin C and its prevalence in newborns in Africa [2013]
• International
  • StatPearls
    • Hemoglobin C Disease
• Saudi Arabia
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
    • Regional Prevalence of Hemoglobin C Across Saudi Arabia: An Epidemiological Survey [2024]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy, anemia in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Hemoglobinopathies

• Australia
  • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
    • Haemoglobinopathies
• Brazil
  • Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
    • Prevalence of hemoglobinopathies in the Brazilian adult population: National Health Survey 2014-2015 [2019]
• Canada
  • National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products
    • NAC Endorsement: ICTMG Guidelines on RBC Specifications for Patients with Hemoglobinopathies [2024]
• Cyprus
  • Scientific Reports
    • The molecular spectrum and distribution of haemoglobinopathies in Cyprus: a 20-year retrospective study [2016]
• Europe
  • European Hematology Association
    • EHA Research Roadmap on Hemoglobinopathies and Thalassemia: An Update [2019]
  • European Medicines Agency
    • EMA workshop on the challenges in drug development, regulation and clinical practice in hemoglobinopathies [2024]
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • Haemoglobinopathies in Europe: health & migration policy perspectives [2014]
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Hemoglobinopathies: Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment [2011]
• Greece
  • Annals of Hematology & Oncology
    • Greek National Prevention Program for Thalassemia and Other Hemoglobinopathies and Contemporary Bioethical Reflections. The Experience of Northern Greece [2022]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Haemoglobinopathies in Greece: prevention programme over the past 35 years [2011]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Haemoglobinopathies in tribal populations of India [2015]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Prevention and control of hemoglobinopathies in India - Thalassemias, sickle cell disease and other variant hemoglobins [2016]
• International
  • Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
    • Population Screening for Hemoglobinopathies [2018]
  • Frontiers in Medicine
    • COVID-19 and Hemoglobinopathies: A Systematic Review of Clinical Presentations, Investigations, and Outcomes [2021]
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
    • Health-related quality of life in hemoglobinopathies: A systematic review from a global perspective [2022]
  • Haematologica
    • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in thalassemia major and sickle cell disease: indications and management recommendations from an international expert panel [2014]
  • International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines
    • Hemoglobinopathies
  • International Hemoglobinopathy Research Network
    • Pharmacogenomics of Drugs Used in ß-Thalassemia and Sickle-Cell Disease: From Basic Research to Clinical Applications [2024]
    • Impact of a-Globin Gene Expression and a-Globin Modifiers on the Phenotype of ß-Thalassemia and Other Hemoglobinopathies: Implications for Patient Management [2024]
    • Endocrinopathies in Hemoglobinopathies: What Is the Role of Iron? [2023]
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
    • Incidence Trends of Inherited Anemias at the Global, Regional, and National Levels Over Three Decades [2024]
  • Thalassaemia International Federation
    • TIF Standards for Haemoglobinopathy Reference Centres [2023]
    • COVID-19 & Haemoglobin Disorders: A Classification of Risk Groups & Other Considerations (2020) [2020]
    • Prevention and diagnosis of haemoglobinopathies [2018]
• Iran
  • BioMed Research International
    • Genetic Epidemiology, Hematological and Clinical Features of Hemoglobinopathies in Iran [2013]
• Italy
  • Italian Journal of Pediatrics
    • Immigration and changes in the epidemiology of hemoglobin disorders in Italy : an emerging public health burden [2012]
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
    • Good Clinical Practice of the Italian Society of Thalassemia and Haemoglobinopathies (SITE) for the Management of Endocrine Complications in Patients with Haemoglobinopathies [2022]
    • First and Second Level Haemoglobinopathies Diagnosis: Best Practices of the Italian Society of Thalassemia and Haemoglobinopathies (SITE) [2022]
• Kuwait
  • Journal of Personalized Medicine
    • The Prevalence of ß-Thalassemia and Other Hemoglobinopathies in Kuwaiti Premarital Screening Program: An 11-Year Experience [2021]
• Nepal
  • Ministry of Health and Population
    • National Guideline for Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia Management [2017]
• Netherlands
  • Ethnicity & Health
    • A case study of haemoglobinopathy screening in the Netherlands: witnessing the past, lessons for the future [2012]
• Oman
  • Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
    • Transfusion in Haemoglobinopathies: Review and recommendations for local blood banks and transfusion services in Oman [2018]
• Spain
  • Annals of Hematology
    • Haemoglobinopathies and other rare anemias in Spain: ten years of a nationwide registry (REHem-AR) [2024]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Prevention and management of indwelling catheter-related thrombosis in sickle cell disease and thalassaemia: A British Society for Haematology Good Practice Paper [2024]
    • Significant haemoglobinopathies: A guideline for screening and diagnosis: A British Society for Haematology Guideline [2023]
    • Guidelines for the monitoring and management of iron overload in patients with haemoglobinopathies and rare anaemias [2022]
    • Position paper on International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine (ICTM) Guideline 'Red blood cell specifications for patients with hemoglobinopathies: a systematic review and guideline' [2020]
  • NHS England
    • Rituximab and eculizumab for the prevention and management of delayed haemolytic transfusion reactions and hyperhaemolysis in patients with haemoglobinopathies [2020]
    • Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Services
    • Haemoglobinopathies
  • Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
    • Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening: commission and provide
    • Haemoglobin disorders: migrant health guide
  • Public Health England
    • Understanding haemoglobinopathies
    • Sickle cell and thalassaemia counselling knowledge and skills
  • Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee
    • Sickle Cell Disorders, Thalassaemia Disorders and other rare hereditary anaemias: all ages [2020]
• United States
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Hemoglobinopathies: Current Practices for Screening, Confirmation and Follow-up [2015]
    • Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia Programs
  • Genetics in Medicine
    • State-based surveillance for selected hemoglobinopathies [2014]
  • Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy
    • Optimizing the management of inherited blood disorders in a changing market: Findings from the AMCP Market Insights Program [2024]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Haemoglobin point of care analysers [2025]
    • Thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies [2006]
• WHO South-East Asia Region
  • WHO South-East Asia Region
    • Regional desk review of haemoglobinopathies with an emphasis on thalassaemia and accessibility and availability of safe blood and blood products as per these patients’ requirement in South-East Asia under universal health coverage [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Thalassemia
    • Sickle cell anemia
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobin C disease
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy, anemia in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Hemolytic anemia

• Australia
  • National Blood Authority
    • Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA)
• Australia, Europe
  • Clinical Epidemiology
    • Epidemiology of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: A Systematic Literature Review [2020]
• Brazil
  • Brazilian Journal of Nephrology
    • Recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS): an expert consensus statement from the Rare Diseases Committee of the Brazilian Society of Nephrology (COMDORA-SBN) [2025]
• Canada
  • Government of Alberta
    • Alberta public health disease management guidelines : haemolytic uremic syndrome
• China
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Incidence and cost of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in urban China: a national population-based analysis [2022]
• Egypt
  • Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette
    • Diagnosis, management and prevention of Pediatric Acute Hemolytic Anemia: Egyptian adapted evidence-based clinical practice guidelines [2023]
• Europe
  • European Hematology Association
    • Recommendations regarding splenectomy in hereditary hemolytic anemias [2017]
• France
  • Blood Advances
    • Drug-induced immune hemolytic anemia: detection of new signals and risk assessment in a nationwide cohort study [2024]
  • EuroSurveillance
    • Paediatric haemolytic uraemic syndrome related to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, an overview of 10 years of surveillance in France, 2007 to 2016 [2019]
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Hemolytic uremic syndrome in a developing country: Consensus guidelines [2019]
  • Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
    • Management of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia in low-to-middle income countries: current challenges and the way forward [2023]
• International
  • American Journal of Hematology
    • Addressing the diagnostic gaps in pyruvate kinase deficiency: Consensus recommendations on the diagnosis of pyruvate kinase deficiency [2019]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • New WHO classification of genetic variants causing G6PD deficiency [2024]
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
    • Expanded Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium Guideline for Medication Use in the Context of G6PD Genotype [2023]
  • Lancet Haematology
    • Diagnosis and management of pyruvate kinase deficiency: international expert guidelines [2024]
• Iran
  • Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases
    • The Prevalence and Incidence of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Iran, a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2020]
• Italy
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Second-line therapy in paediatric warm autoimmune haemolytic anaemia. Guidelines from the Associazione Italiana Onco-Ematologia Pediatrica (AIEOP) [2018]
    • Diagnosis and management of newly diagnosed childhood autoimmune haemolytic anaemia. Recommendations from the Red Cell Study Group of the Paediatric Haemato-Oncology Italian Association [2017]
• Japan
  • Scientific Reports
    • Annual trends in atypical haemolytic uremic syndrome management in Japan and factors influencing early diagnosis and treatment: a retrospective study [2024]
• Norway
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
    • Clinical features, therapeutic interventions and long-term aspects of hemolytic-uremic syndrome in Norwegian children: a nationwide retrospective study from 1999–2008 [2016]
• Republic of Korea
  • Blood Research
    • Korean clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis of hereditary hemolytic anemia [2022]
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Epidemiological Study of Hereditary Hemolytic Anemia in the Korean Pediatric Population during 1997–2016: a Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study [2020]
    • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Korea [2016]
  • Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
    • Consensus regarding diagnosis and management of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome [2020]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Annals of Thoracic Medicine
    • Saudi Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension: Pulmonary hypertension associated with hemolytic anemia [2014]
• Spain
  • Nefrología
    • An update for atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome: Diagnosis and treatment. A consensus document [2015]
• Taiwan
  • Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
    • Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome: Consensus of diagnosis and treatment in Taiwan [2023]
• Turkey
  • Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
    • Management of pediatric hemolytic uremic syndrome [2024]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • The diagnosis and management of primary autoimmune haemolytic anaemia [2017]
    • Guidelines on the management of drug-induced immune and secondary autoimmune, haemolytic anaemia [2017]
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of hereditary spherocytosis – 2011 update [2011]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Iptacopan for treating paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria [2024]
    • Danicopan with ravulizumab or eculizumab for treating paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria [2024]
    • Crovalimab for treating paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria in people 12 years and over [2024]
    • Ravulizumab for treating atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome [2021]
    • Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia: rituximab [2015]
• United States
  • American Family Physician
    • Hemolytic Anemia: Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis [2018]
  • Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
    • The cost-effectiveness of pegcetacoplan in complement treatment-naïve adults with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria in the USA [2023]
  • National Kidney Foundation
    • An expert discussion on the atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome nomenclature-identifying a road map to precision: a report of a National Kidney Foundation Working Group [2024]
  • Pharmaceutics
    • Development of New Drugs for Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia [2022]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO information note on delayed haemolytic anaemia following treatment with artesunate [2013]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Anemia

Iron-deficiency anemia

• Asia
  • International Journal of Cardiology
    • Expert recommendations for the management of iron deficiency in patients with heart failure in Asia [2024]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
    • Prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in Asian female population and human development index (HDI): an ecological study [2020]
• Asia-Pacific
  • Nutrients
    • Prevention and Management of Iron Deficiency/Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Women: An Asian Expert Consensus [2023]
• Australia
  • Australian Prescriber
    • Correcting iron deficiency [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Nurses' understanding and management of iron deficiency in Australia: a cross-sectional, exploratory study [2023]
• Brazil
  • Nutrients
    • Association of Iron Supplementation Programs with Iron-Deficiency Anemia Outcomes among Children in Brazil [2021]
  • PeerJ
    • Prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in Brazilian women of childbearing age: a systematic review with meta-analysis [2022]
• Canada
  • Alberta Health Services
    • Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) Primary Care Pathway
  • BCGuidelines
    • Iron Deficiency – Diagnosis and Management
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Pharmacoeconomic Review Report: Iron Isomaltoside 1000 (Monoferric) [2020]
    • Clinical Review Report: Iron Isomaltoside 1000 (Monoferric) [2020]
    • CADTH Canadian Drug Expert Committee Recommendation: Iron Isomaltoside 1000 (Monoferric — Pharmacosmos A/S) [2020]
    • Ferumoxytol versus Other Intravenous Iron Therapies for Anemia: A Review of the Clinical and Cost-effectiveness and Guidelines [2014]
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Iron requirements in the first 2 years of life [2019]
• Canada, United States
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Prevalence of Iron Deficiency Using 3 Definitions Among Women in the US and Canada [2024]
• China
  • Biomedical and Environmental Sciences
    • Effect of NaFeEDTA-Fortified Soy Sauce on Anemia Prevalence in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials [2015]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Epidemiology of dietary iron deficiency in China from 1990 to 2021: findings from the global burden of disease study 2021 [2025]
  • China CDC Weekly
    • Iron Status Among Children Aged 6-17 Years by Serum Ferritin — China, 2016-2017 [2021]
• Costa Rica
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Effectiveness evaluation of the food fortification program of Costa Rica: impact on anemia prevalence and hemoglobin concentrations in women and children [2015]
• Croatia
  • Diagnostics
    • Management of Childhood Iron Deficiency Anemia in a Developed Country-A Multi-Center Experience from Croatia [2023]
• Cuba
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence of Anemia and Iron Deficiency in Women of Reproductive Age in Cuba and Associated Factors [2023]
  • MEDICC Review
    • Adjusting Iron Deficiency for Inflammation in Cuban Children Aged Under Five Years: New Approaches Using Quadratic and Quantile Regression [2022]
    • Influence of Inflammation on Assessing Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Cuban Preschool Children [2021]
• Egypt
  • Bulletin of the National Research Centre
    • Evidence-based Egyptian clinical practice guidelines: for the prevention and management of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia in infants, children and adolescents [2023]
• Ethiopia
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Individual and community level determinants of iron intake among children 6-59 months old in Ethiopia: multilevel logistic regression analysis [2022]
• Europe
  • Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
    • Prevalence and incidence of iron deficiency in European community-dwelling older adults: an observational analysis of the DO-HEALTH trial [2022]
  • Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
    • Iron Intake and Status of Children Aged 6-36 Months in Europe: A Systematic Review [2015]
  • European Hematology Association
    • Recommendations for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia [2024]
• Finland
  • Acta Paediatrica
    • Trends in ferritin measurements in children and adolescents: A Finnish 9-year observational study [2022]
• France
  • Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases
    • Diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency in patients with heart failure: Expert position paper from French cardiologists [2014]
  • BMC Geriatrics
    • Prevalence of iron deficiency in patients admitted to a geriatric unit: a multicenter cross-sectional study [2024]
• Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Medical Principles and Practice
    • Consensus Statement by an Expert Panel on the Diagnosis and Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries [2020]
• India
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • How Effective Is Iron Supplementation During Pregnancy and Childhood in Reducing Anemia Among 6–59 Months Old Children in India? [2020]
  • Health Policy and Planning
    • Coverage of iron and folic acid supplementation in India: progress under the Anemia Mukt Bharat strategy 2017-20 [2022]
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Iron Deficiency Anemia [2022]
  • Indian Journal of Community Health
    • Iron Deficiency Anemia [2018]
  • International Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Research
    • Iron deficiency anemia: A global public health concern [2025]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Intensified National Iron Plus Initiative (I-NIPI) - Operational Guidelines for Programme Managers [2018]
    • Guidelines for Control of Iron Deficiency Anaemia [2013]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Cost-Effectiveness of Price Subsidies on Fortified Packaged Infant Cereals in Reducing Iron Deficiency Anemia in 6-23-Month-Old-Children in Urban India [2016]
    • Social Costs of Iron Deficiency Anemia in 6–59-Month-Old Children in India [2015]
• Indonesia
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Nutritional anemia: Limitations and consequences of Indonesian intervention policy restricted to iron and folic acid [2020]
    • Nutritional anemia in Indonesian children and adolescents: Diagnostic reliability for appropriate management [2020]
  • Nutrients
    • A Life Course Approach to the Prevention of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Indonesia [2022]
• International
  • American Journal of Hematology
    • Iron deficiency across chronic inflammatory conditions: International expert opinion on definition, diagnosis, and management [2017]
  • Annals of Medicine
    • Questions and answers on iron deficiency treatment selection and the use of intravenous iron in routine clinical practice [2021]
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    • Nutrition-specific interventions for preventing and controlling anaemia throughout the life cycle: an overview of systematic reviews [2021]
  • Current Medical Research and Opinion
    • Systematic review of guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency anemia using intravenous iron across multiple indications [2020]
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Iron deficiency and anaemia in women and girls [2023]
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Identification of women and girls with iron deficiency in the reproductive years [2023]
    • Evidence gaps for the global problem of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia in women and girls of reproductive age [2023]
  • Lancet Haematology
    • The challenge of defining the global burden of iron deficiency anaemia [2023]
  • Nutrients
    • Iron Deficiency: Global Trends and Projections from 1990 to 2050 [2024]
    • Performance Factors Influencing Efficacy and Effectiveness of Iron Fortification Programs of Condiments for Improving Anemia Prevalence and Iron Status in Populations: A Systematic Review [2020]
    • The Proportion of Anemia Associated with Iron Deficiency in Low, Medium, and High Human Development Index Countries: A Systematic Analysis of National Surveys [2016]
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • The global prevalence and ethnic heterogeneity of iron-refractory iron deficiency anaemia [2023]
  • Pathogens and Global Health
    • Body iron delocalization: the serious drawback in iron disorders in both developing and developed countries [2012]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Optimal dose and duration of iron supplementation for treating iron deficiency anaemia in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]
    • Differences in the frequency of genetic variants associated with iron imbalance among global populations [2020]
• Iran
  • Health Research Policy and Systems
    • Agenda-setting for iron deficiency anaemia prevention and control policies in Iran by multiple streams framework [2024]
  • Journal of Blood Medicine
    • Prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in Iranian children under 6 years of age: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]
• Japan
  • International Journal of Hematology
    • Clinical management of iron deficiency anemia in Japan: iron prescription patterns, treatment effectiveness, and assessments [2024]
• Kuwait
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence and Determinants of Anemia and Iron Deficiency in Kuwait [2015]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Blood
    • Control of iron deficiency anemia in low- and middle-income countries [2013]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Role of iron in the reduction of anemia among women of reproductive age in low-middle income countries: insights from systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
• Netherlands
  • Blood
    • Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of microcytic anemias due to genetic disorders of iron metabolism or heme synthesis [2014]
• New Zealand
  • Starship
    • Iron Deficiency
• Nordic countries
  • Food & Nutrition Research
    • Health effects of different dietary iron intakes: a systematic literature review for the 5th Nordic Nutrition Recommendations [2013]
• Pakistan
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Iron status of the Pakistani population-current issues and strategies [2013]
  • Nutrients
    • Prevalence and Risk Factors for Iron Deficiency Anemia among Children under Five and Women of Reproductive Age in Pakistan: Findings from the National Nutrition Survey 2018 [2023]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Prevalence and Predictors of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Children under Five Years of Age in Pakistan, A Secondary Analysis of National Nutrition Survey Data 2011–2012 [2016]
• Peru
  • Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
    • Adherence to multiple micronutrient powders and associated factors in children aged 6 to 35 months treated in sentinel health facilities, Ministry of Health of Peru [2016]
• Poland
  • Nutrients
    • Diagnosis and Treatment of Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anemia in Children and Adolescents: Recommendations of the Polish Pediatric Society, the Polish Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, the Polish Society of Neonatology, and the Polish Society of Family Medicine [2024]
• Qatar
  • BMJ Open
    • Epidemiology of iron deficiency among adolescents aged 10-19 years old in Qatar: a cross-sectional study [2022]
• Republic of Korea
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Annual Prevalence, Health Expenditures, and Co-Morbidities Trend of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Korea: National Health Insurance Service Data from 2002 to 2013 [2020]
  • Nutrients
    • Prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anemia Indicated for Intravenous Iron Treatment in the Korean Population [2023]
  • Science Advances
    • Possible link between statin and iron deficiency anemia: A South Korean nationwide population-based cohort study [2023]
• Saudi Arabia
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • An assessment for diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for management of pediatric Iron deficiency Anemia in Saudi Arabia: a crossectional study [2019]
• Singapore
  • European Journal of Heart Failure
    • Iron deficiency in a multi-ethnic Asian population with and without heart failure: prevalence, clinical correlates, functional significance and prognosis [2014]
• Somalia
  • Maternal & Child Nutrition
    • Risk factors of anaemia and iron deficiency in Somali children and women: Findings from the 2019 Somalia Micronutrient Survey [2022]
• South Africa
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence of Anaemia, Iron Deficiency, and Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Women of Reproductive Age and Children under 5 Years of Age in South Africa (1997-2021): A Systematic Review [2021]
  • South African Medical Journal
    • Guidance for the gastrointestinal evaluation and management of iron deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa [2024]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Medicine
    • Estimating the burden of iron deficiency among African children [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Weekly iron-folic acid supplementation and its impact on children and adolescents iron status, mental health and school performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis in sub-Saharan Africa [2024]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Swiss Delphi study on iron deficiency [2019]
• United Kingdom
  • BMJ Open Gastroenterology
    • Iron deficiency anaemia: pathophysiology, assessment, practical management [2022]
  • British Journal of General Practice
    • Iron supplementation in women: impact of frequency on efficacy and tolerability [2022]
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guideline for the laboratory diagnosis of iron deficiency in adults (excluding pregnancy) and children [2022]
    • Guideline for the laboratory diagnosis of functional iron deficiency [2013]
  • British Society of Gastroenterology
    • British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines for the management of iron deficiency anaemia in adults [2021]
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Preoperative intravenous iron for anaemia in elective major open abdominal surgery: the PREVENTT RCT [2021]
  • NHS Blood and Transplant
    • Iron deficiency anaemia
  • Right Decisions
    • Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) in Adults: Oral and Intravenous Iron Therapy Treatment
  • Scientific Reports
    • Real-world experience of intravenous ferric derisomaltose evaluated through safety and efficacy reporting in the UK [2022]
  • Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety
    • Variability in the clinical management of iron deficiency anaemia in older adults: results from a survey of UK specialists in the care of older people [2019]
• United States
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Routine Iron Supplementation and Screening for Iron Deficiency Anemia in Children Ages 6 to 24 Months [2015]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Diagnosis and Prevention of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Infants and Young Children (0-3 Years of Age) [2010]
  • American Gastroenterological Association
    • AGA Clinical Practice Update on Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia: Expert Review [2024]
    • AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Gastrointestinal Evaluation of Iron Deficiency Anemia [2020]
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Iron Deficiency in the United States: Limitations in Guidelines, Data, and Monitoring of Disparities [2022]
  • American Society of Hematology
    • Iron Deficiency Anemia
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    • Intravenous Iron Therapy
  • JAMA
    • Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12-21 Years, 2003-2020 [2023]
  • Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy
    • Financial burden associated with discordance to intravenous iron therapies in US patients with iron deficiency anemia [2023]
  • Journal of Nutrition
    • Comparison of Current World Health Organization Guidelines with Physiologically Based Serum Ferritin Thresholds for Iron Deficiency in Healthy Young Children and Nonpregnant Women Using Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [2023]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Iron Deficiency Anemia in Young Children: Screening [2015]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO guideline on use of ferritin concentrations to assess iron status in individuals and populations [2020]
    • Serum ferritin concentrations for the assessment of iron status in individuals and populations: technical brief [2020]
    • Weekly iron and folic acid supplementation as an anaemia-prevention strategy in women and adolescent girls: lessons learnt from implementation of programmes among non-pregnant women of reproductive age [2018]
    • Guideline: daily iron supplementation in adult women and adolescent girls [2016]
    • Serum transferrin receptor levels for the assessment of iron status and iron deficiency in populations [2014]
    • Iron-deficiency anaemia
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy
    • Blood transfusion
    • Anemia

Macrocytic anemia

• Canada
  • BCGuidelines
    • Cobalamin (vitamin B12) and Folate Deficiency
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Megaloblastic Anemia [2022]
• Japan
  • Journal of General and Family Medicine
    • Diagnosis and treatment of macrocytic anemias in adults [2017]
• Netherlands
  • BMC Family Practice
    • Prevalence of potential underlying aetiology of macrocytic anaemia in Dutch general practice [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Vitamin B12 deficiency in over 16s: diagnosis and management [2024]
• United States
  • American Family Physician
    • Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Recognition and Management [2017]
  • Blood
    • Vitamin B12 deficiency from the perspective of a practicing hematologist [2017]
  • International Journal of Laboratory Hematology
    • How I investigate acquired megaloblastic anemia [2022]
  • StatPearls
    • Folic Acid
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Anemia

Sickle cell anemia

• Africa
  • BMC Medicine
    • Caring for Africa’s sickle cell children: will we rise to the challenge? [2020]
  • Neurology
    • Neurologic complications of sickle cell disease in Africa [2017]
  • SickleInAfrica
    • Assent, parental consent and reconsent for health research in Africa: thematic analysis of national guidelines and lessons from the SickleInAfrica registry [2022]
  • WHO African Region
    • WHO sickle package of interventions for sickle cell disease management [2024]
    • Progress in the implementation of the African Region sickle-cell strategy 2010–2020: information document [2020]
    • Sickle-Cell Disease: a strategy for the WHO African Region [2011]
    • Sickle-Cell Disease in the African Region: Current Situation and the Way Forward Report of the Regional Director [2006]
    • Sickle Cell Disease
• Asia
  • Neurology Research International
    • Prevalence of Stroke in Asian Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]
• Brazil
  • Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira
    • Epidemiological profile trends and cost of sickle cell disease in Brazil from 2008 to 2022 [2025]
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Social inequalities in the temporal trend of mortality from sickle cell disease in Brazil, 1996-2019 [2023]
  • Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy
    • Guidelines on sickle cell disease: primary stroke prevention in children and adolescents. Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular Guidelines project: Associação Médica Brasileira - 2021 [2022]
  • Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
    • Analysis of the temporal trend of mortality from sickle cell anemia in Brazil [2022]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Acute complications in children with sickle cell disease: Prevention and management [2022]
  • CMAJ
    • Red blood cell transfusion in sickle cell disease [2023]
• Congo-Brazzaville
  • Anemia
    • Sickle-Cell Disease Healthcare Cost in Africa: Experience of the Congo [2016]
• Cuba
  • MEDICC Review
    • Sickle cell anemia in Cuba: prevention and management, 1982-2018 [2019]
• Developing countries
  • BMJ Open
    • Self-management needs, strategies and support for individuals with sickle cell disease in developing countries: a scoping review [2024]
• France
  • Frontiers in Public Health
    • Prevalence and cost of sickle cell disease in France: real-world analysis using data from the Echantillon Généraliste des Bénéficiaires [2023]
  • Haematologica
    • Severity and burden of sickle cell disease in France: a nationwide real-world study [2023]
    • Mortality in children with sickle cell disease in mainland France from 2000 to 2015 [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Modeling the public health impact of voxelotor in the management of sickle cell disease in France [2023]
    • Epidemiology and disease burden of sickle cell disease in France: A descriptive study based on a French nationwide claim database [2021]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Nationwide retrospective study of critically ill adults with sickle cell disease in France [2021]
  • Transfusion and Apheresis Science
    • Position paper on advancing sickle cell disease management in France by bridging the clinical practices and guidelines through expert insights [2024]
• Ghana
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Chronic kidney disease is common in sickle cell disease: a cross-sectional study in the Tema Metropolis, Ghana [2015]
  • BMJ Open
    • Time trends, sociodemographic and health factors associated with discharge and length of stay of hospitalised patients with sickle cell disease in Ghana: a retrospective analysis of national routine health database [2021]
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Controlling sickle cell disease in Ghana – ethics and options [2011]
  • Seminars in Hematology
    • Access to essential therapy for sickle cell disease in Africa: Experience from a national program in Ghana [2023]
  • SickleInAfrica
    • Establishing a Sickle Cell Disease Registry in Africa: Experience From the Sickle Pan-African Research Consortium, Kumasi-Ghana [2022]
• India
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Sickle cell disease in India: a scoping review from a health systems perspective to identify an agenda for research and action [2021]
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Practicing Pearls for Sickle Cell Disease Management [2022]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • A systematic review on hydroxyurea therapy for sickle cell disease in India [2022]
    • Evolving locally appropriate models of care for Indian sickle cell disease [2016]
    • Sickle cell disease in tribal populations in India [2015]
  • Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion
    • Natiolal guidelines on management and control of sickle cell disease [2022]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission - Training Module for Medical Officers [2023]
    • Guidelines for national programme for prevention & management of sickle cell disease [2023]
    • National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission - Guidelines & Training Materials
  • Scientific Reports
    • The spatial epidemiology of sickle-cell anaemia in India [2018]
• International
  • American Journal of Hematology
    • Globalization in clinical drug development for sickle cell disease [2025]
  • Haematologica
    • Environmental determinants of severity in sickle cell disease [2015]
  • International Hemoglobinopathy Research Network
    • Systematic Review of Genetic Modifiers Associated with the Development and/or Progression of Nephropathy in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease [2024]
    • Pulmonary Hypertension in Sickle Cell Disease: Novel Findings of Gene Polymorphisms Related to Pathophysiology [2024]
    • Genetic Modifiers of Stroke in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease-A Scoping Review [2024]
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
    • Relevance of Plasma Homocysteine and Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase 677TT Genotype in Sickle Cell Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
  • JAMA Network Open
    • Genetic Variation and Sickle Cell Disease Severity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]
  • Lancet Haematology
    • Global, regional, and national prevalence and mortality burden of sickle cell disease, 2000-2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 [2023]
  • Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases
    • Current Issues and Options for Hormonal Contraception in Adolescents and Young Adult Women With Sickle Cell Disease: An Update for Health Care Professionals [2020]
  • Molecular Therapy Methods & Clinical Development
    • Consensus-driven target product profiles for curative sickle cell disease gene therapies [2024]
  • Transfusion and Apheresis Science
    • Global burden of transfusion in sickle cell disease [2023]
• Italy
  • British Journal of Haematology
    • Acute events in children with sickle cell disease in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic: useful lessons learned [2021]
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • Organizing national responses for rare blood disorders: the Italian experience with sickle cell disease in childhood [2013]
• Kenya
  • Ministry of Health Kenya
    • Policy guidelines on infant screening for sickle cell disease [2023]
    • National guidelines for control and management of sickle cell disease in Kenya [2020]
• Low and middle income countries
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Fever Management in Sickle Cell Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Survey of SCD Management Programs [2020]
  • British Journal of Haematology
    • The wider perspective: Barriers and recommendations for transfusion support for patients with sickle cell disease in low- and middle-income countries [2025]
  • Expert Review of Hematology
    • Strategies to increase access to basic sickle cell disease care in low- and middle-income countries [2022]
• Low-income countries
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood
    • Evidence review of hydroxyurea for the prevention of sickle cell complications in low-income countries [2013]
• Middle East
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Sickle cell disease in Middle East Arab countries [2011]
• Nigeria
  • Advances in Hematology
    • Hypertransfusion Therapy in Sickle Cell Disease in Nigeria [2014]
  • Anemia
    • Management of Sickle Cell Disease: A Review for Physician Education in Nigeria (Sub-Saharan Africa) [2015]
  • BMC Medicine
    • Association of sickle cell disease with anthropometric indices among under-five children: evidence from 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey [2021]
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Analysis of Sickle Cell Genotypes of Young Children in Nigeria Using the 2018 DHS Survey [2020]
  • Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
    • National guideline for the control and management of sickle cell disease [2014]
• Nigeria, United States
  • Hemoglobin
    • Comparison of Patients from Nigeria and the USA Highlights Modifiable Risk Factors for Sickle Cell Anemia Complications [2014]
• Oman
  • Acta Biomedica
    • The prevalence of sickling abnormality in Oman: A review of relevant publications [2022]
• Sao Tome and Principe
  • BMC Public Health
    • Sickle cell trait in São Tomé e Príncipe: a population-based prevalence study in women of reproductive age [2024]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Annals of Saudi Medicine
    • Epidemiology of sickle cell disease in Saudi Arabia [2011]
  • Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal
    • Commonly used agent for acute pain management of sickle cell anemia in Saudi Emergency Department: A narrative review [2021]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Annals of Global Health
    • Bridging the Access Gap for Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Management Across Sub-Saharan Africa: Learnings for Other Global Health Interventions? [2023]
  • Blood
    • Hydroxyurea treatment is associated with lower malaria incidence in children with sickle cell anemia in sub-Saharan Africa [2023]
  • BMC Nutrition
    • Nutritional perspectives on sickle cell disease in Africa: a systematic review [2021]
  • BMC Public Health
    • Update on the practice of premarital screening for sickle cell traits in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Seminars in Hematology
    • Current challenges and new approaches to implementing optimal management of sickle cell disease in sub-Saharan Africa [2023]
  • SickleInAfrica
    • Strengthening global partnerships for sustainable sickle cell disease care: insights from SickleInAfrica at the 77th United Nations General Assembly and the US-Africa Leaders' Summit [2025]
    • Development of multi-level standards of care recommendations for sickle cell disease: Experience from SickleInAfrica [2023]
    • SickleInAfrica [2020]
• Sudan
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • The ethnic distribution of sickle cell disease in Sudan [2014]
• Tanzania
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Surveillance for sickle cell disease, United Republic of Tanzania [2020]
  • SickleInAfrica
    • Development of the sickle Pan-African research consortium registry in Tanzania: opportunity to harness data science for sickle cell disease [2023]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Health policy for sickle cell disease in Africa: experience from Tanzania on interventions to reduce under-five mortality [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • Association of Anaesthetists
    • Guideline on the peri-operative management of patients with sickle cell disease: Guideline from the Association of Anaesthetists [2021]
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guidelines for the use of hydroxycarbamide in children and adults with sickle cell disease [2018]
    • Guidelines on red cell transfusion in sickle cell disease. Part I: principles and laboratory aspects [2017]
    • Guidelines on red cell transfusion in sickle cell disease Part II: indications for transfusion [2017]
    • Guideline on the management of acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease [2015]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Exagamglogene autotemcel for treating severe sickle cell disease in people 12 years and over [2025]
    • Spectra Optia for automatic red blood cell exchange in patients with sickle cell disease [2016]
    • Sickle cell disease [2014]
    • Sickle cell disease: managing acute painful episodes in hospital [2012]
  • NHS England
    • Plerixafor use in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) who are eligible for treatment with exagamglogene autotemcel (ages 12 years and above) [2025]
    • Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for adults with sickle cell disease [2020]
  • Royal College of Emergency Medicine
    • Management of Acute Presentations of Sickle Cell Disease in the Emergency Department [2024]
  • Royal College of Pathologists
    • Guidelines on autopsy practice: Autopsy in sickle cell disease and sickle trait [2023]
  • Sickle Cell Society
    • Sickle Cell Disease in Childhood: Standards and Recommendations for Clinical Care [2019]
    • Standards for Clinical Care of Adults with Sickle Cell Disease in the UK [2018]
  • Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee
    • Allogeneic Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) for people of all ages with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) [2021]
• United States
  • Advances in Therapy
    • Economic and Clinical Burden of Managing Sickle Cell Disease with Recurrent Vaso-Occlusive Crises in the United States [2023]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Health Supervision for Children and Adolescents With Sickle Cell Disease: Clinical Report [2024]
  • American Journal of Hematology
    • An integrated therapeutic approach to sickle cell disease management beyond infancy [2023]
    • Evidence gaps in the management of sickle cell disease: A summary of needed research [2015]
  • American Society of Hematology
    • American Society of Hematology 2021 guidelines for sickle cell disease: stem cell transplantation [2021]
    • American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: transfusion support [2020]
    • American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cerebrovascular disease in children and adults [2020]
    • American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: management of acute and chronic pain [2020]
    • American Society of Hematology 2019 guidelines for sickle cell disease: cardiopulmonary and kidney disease [2019]
    • 2019 sickle cell disease guidelines by the American Society of Hematology: methodology, challenges, and innovations [2019]
    • Clinical Practice Guidelines on Sickle Cell Disease
  • American Thoracic Society
    • An official American Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline: diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of pulmonary hypertension of sickle cell disease [2014]
  • Annals of Emergency Medicine
    • Trends in Sickle Cell Disease–Related Mortality in the United States, 1979 to 2017 [2020]
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
    • Distributional Cost-Effectiveness of Equity-Enhancing Gene Therapy in Sickle Cell Disease in the United States [2023]
  • Blood Advances
    • Long-term survival with sickle cell disease: a nationwide cohort study of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries [2023]
    • Comparison of thromboembolism outcomes in patients with sickle cell disease prescribed hormonal contraception [2023]
    • Building access to care in adult sickle cell disease: defining models of care, essential components, and economic aspects [2020]
  • BMJ Open
    • Characterisation of medical conditions of children with sickle cell disease in the USA: findings from the 2007-2018 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) [2023]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Vital Signs: Use of Recommended Health Care Measures to Prevent Selected Complications of Sickle Cell Anemia in Children and Adolescents — Selected U.S. States, 2019 [2022]
    • Surveillance for Sickle Cell Disease — Sickle Cell Data Collection Program, Two States, 2004–2018 [2022]
    • CDC Grand Rounds: Improving the Lives of Persons with Sickle Cell Disease [2017]
    • Sickle Cell Disease
    • Preventing Sickle Cell Anemia Complications in Children
  • Drugs & Aging
    • Management of Older Adults with Sickle Cell Disease: Considerations for Current and Emerging Therapies [2023]
  • Global Pediatric Health
    • Barriers to Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Guideline Recommendations [2019]
  • Hematology: the American Society of Hematology Education Program
    • Practical guide for disease-modifying medication management of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease [2024]
  • Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
    • Sickle Cell Disease
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Analysis of the 2007-2018 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS): Examining Neurological Complications among Children with Sickle Cell Disease in the United States [2023]
  • JAMA Health Forum
    • Rethinking Care Models for Young Adults With Sickle Cell Disease [2023]
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
    • Addressing Sickle Cell Disease: A Strategic Plan and Blueprint for Action [2020]
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
    • Evidence-Based Management of Sickle Cell Disease: Expert Panel Report, 2014 [2014]
    • Sickle Cell Disease
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer
    • Practice Patterns for Neuroimaging and Transfusion Therapy for Management of Neurologic Complications in Sickle Cell Anemia: DISPLACE Consortium [2020]
  • Pediatrics
    • Prioritizing Sickle Cell Disease [2022]
  • PharmacoEconomics
    • Cost-Effectiveness of Lovotibeglogene Autotemcel (Lovo-Cel) Gene Therapy for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease and Recurrent Vaso-Occlusive Events in the United States [2024]
  • PLoS ONE
    • What does it mean to be affiliated with care?: Delphi consensus on the definition of "unaffiliation" and "specialist" in sickle cell disease [2022]
    • Prevalence of comorbidities associated with sickle cell disease among non-elderly individuals with commercial insurance-A retrospective cohort study [2022]
    • Emergency Department Visits and Inpatient Admissions Associated with Priapism among Males with Sickle Cell Disease in the United States, 2006–2010 [2016]
  • Public Health Reports
    • A National Measurement Framework to Assess and Improve Sickle Cell Care in 4 US Regions [2020]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Multi-center retrospective study of children with sickle cell disease admitted to pediatric intensive care units in the United States [2023]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Sickle-cell anaemia [2006]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy, anemia in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Thalassemia

• Asia
  • International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology
    • Prevalence of transfusion-transmitted infections in multiple blood transfusion-dependent thalassemic patients in Asia: A systemic review [2022]
• Bangladesh
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Bangladesh
    • National Guidelines on Thalassaemia Management for Physician [2019]
  • Thalassemia Reports
    • ß-Thalassemia in Bangladesh: Current Status and Future Perspectives [2024]
• Brazil
  • Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
    • Guidelines on Beta-thalassemia major – regular blood transfusion therapy: Associação Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular: project guidelines: Associação Médica Brasileira – 2016 [2016]
• Canada
  • CMAJ
    • Thalassemia [2020]
  • Thalassemia Foundation of Canada
    • Guidelines for the Clinical Care of Patients with Thalassemia in Canada [2009]
• China
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • Economic burden of adult patients with ß-thalassaemia major in mainland China [2023]
  • Pediatric Investigation
    • Epidemiology and treatment of beta thalassemia major in China [2019]
• East and South Asia
  • BMC Public Health
    • Current status and trends in thalassemia burden across South, East and Southeast Asia, 1990-2021 a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2021 [2024]
• Europe
  • European Hematology Association
    • Selecting ß-thalassemia Patients for Gene Therapy: A Decision-making Algorithm [2021]
• Gulf Cooperation Council
  • BioMed Research International
    • Epidemiology of Thalassemia in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Systematic Review [2020]
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • Regional consensus opinion for the management of Beta thalassemia major in the Arabian Gulf area [2013]
• India
  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics
    • Evidence-based IAP-PHO Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Thalassemia - 2023 [2023]
    • Thalassemia [2022]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Past, present & future scenario of thalassaemic care & control in India [2011]
  • Indian Pediatrics
    • Management of Thalassemia: Blood and Beyond [2021]
  • Pediatric Hematology Oncology Journal
    • Burden of thalassemia in India: The road map for control [2017]
• Indonesia
  • International Journal of Health and Medicine
    • Management Thalassemia in Indonesia : A Literature Review [2025]
• International
  • Acta Biomedica
    • Nutritional studies in patients with ß-thalassemia major: A short review [2023]
  • Annals of Global Health
    • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Stature Growth Complications in ß-thalassemia Major Patients [2021]
  • Annals of Medicine
    • A systematic review of adherence to iron chelation therapy among children and adolescents with thalassemia [2022]
  • Blood
    • Management of chronic viral hepatitis in patients with thalassemia: recommendations from an international panel [2010]
  • Blood Reviews
    • Challenges of blood transfusions in ß-thalassemia [2019]
  • EClinicalMedicine
    • Global, regional, and national burden of thalassemia, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2021 [2024]
  • European Journal of Haematology
    • Changing patterns in the epidemiology of ß-thalassemia [2020]
  • Frontiers in Hematology
    • Global burden and unmet needs in the treatment of transfusion-dependent ß-thalassemia [2023]
  • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
    • The impact of chelation compliance in health outcome and health related quality of life in thalassaemia patients: a systematic review [2024]
  • International Hemoglobinopathy Research Network
    • Loss-of-Function Variants in SUPT5H as Modifying Factors in Beta-Thalassemia [2024]
  • Medical Journal of Malaysia
    • A systematic review on thalassaemia screening and birth reduction initiatives: cost to success [2024]
  • Thalassaemia International Federation
    • TIF Guidelines for the Management of Transfusion-Dependent ß-Thalassemia [2025]
    • Assessing Disability in Thalassaemia: A Position Statement by the Thalassaemia International Federation [2024]
    • Addressing Thalassaemia Management from Patients' Perspectives: An International Collaborative Assessment [2024]
    • 2021 Thalassaemia International Federation Guidelines for the Management of Transfusion-dependent Thalassemia [2022]
    • The changing epidemiology of the ageing thalassaemia populations: A position statement of the Thalassaemia International Federation [2020]
    • COVID-19 and thalassaemia: A position statement of the Thalassaemia International Federation [2020]
    • TIF Publications
    • Positions & Policies
• Iran
  • Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences
    • Prevalence of Depression among Iranian Patients with Beta-Thalassemia Major: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2022]
• Italy
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Changing patterns of thalassaemia in Italy: a WebThal perspective [2021]
  • Hematology
    • The Italian multiregional thalassemia registry: Centers characteristics, services, and patients' population [2016]
• Malaysia
  • Health Economics Review
    • Efficiency and management factors: finding the balance in Thalassaemia care centres [2022]
  • Ministry of Health Malaysia
    • Management of Thalassaemia [2024]
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • Economic burden in the management of transfusion-dependent thalassaemia patients in Malaysia from a societal perspective [2021]
• Maldives
  • Journal of Community Genetics
    • Falling prevalence of beta-thalassaemia and eradication of malaria in the Maldives [2011]
  • Ministry of Health Maldives
    • Management of transfusion dependent thalassemias in the Maldives [2022]
• Middle East
  • Blood Reviews
    • Management of transfusion-dependent ß-thalassemia (TDT): Expert insights and practical overview from the Middle East [2024]
• New Zealand
  • Starship
    • Thalassaemia
• Pakistan
  • Cureus
    • Prevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections in Beta-Thalassemia Major Patients in Pakistan: A Systematic Review [2020]
• Portugal
  • Acta Médica Portuguesa
    • Prevalence Rate of Thalassemia Carriers among Individuals with Microcytosis or Hypochromia in Portugal [2023]
• Republic of Korea
  • Blood Research
    • Recent progress in laboratory diagnosis of thalassemia and hemoglobinopathy: a study by the Korean Red Blood Cell Disorder Working Party of the Korean Society of Hematology [2019]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Medical Journal
    • Molecular nature of alpha-globin genes in the Saudi population [2015]
• South-East Asia
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence of Alpha(a)-Thalassemia in Southeast Asia (2010–2020): A Meta-Analysis Involving 83,674 Subjects [2020]
• Spain
  • Annals of Hematology
    • Spanish registry of hemoglobinopathies and rare anemias (REHem-AR): demographics, complications, and management of patients with ß-thalassemia [2024]
• Sri Lanka
  • PLoS ONE
    • A nationwide survey of hospital-based thalassemia patients and standards of care and a preliminary assessment of the national prevention program in Sri Lanka [2019]
• Thailand
  • eLife
    • Estimating the burden of a-thalassaemia in Thailand using a comprehensive prevalence database for Southeast Asia [2019]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Exagamglogene autotemcel for treating transfusion-dependent beta-thalassaemia in people 12 years and over [2024]
  • NHS England
    • Clinical commissioning statement: plerixafor use in patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassaemia who are eligible for treatment with exagamglogene autotemcel (ages 12 years and above) [2024]
    • Clinical commissioning policy: allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Allo-HSCT) for adult transfusion dependent thalassaemia [2023]
  • UK Thalassaemia Society
    • Standards for the clinical care of children and adults with thalassaemia in the UK [2023]
• United States
  • American Family Physician
    • Alpha- and Beta-thalassemia: Rapid Evidence Review [2022]
  • American Heart Association
    • Cardiovascular function and treatment in ß-thalassemia major: a consensus statement from the American Heart Association [2013]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Thalassemia
  • Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
    • Beta Thalassemia
  • Journal of Medical Economics
    • Economic and clinical burden of managing transfusion-dependent ß-thalassemia in the United States [2023]
  • Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
    • Guidelines for the Standard Monitoring of Patients with Thalassemia: Report of the Thalassemia Longitudinal Cohort [2015]
  • Transfusion
    • The transfusion management of beta thalassemia in the United States [2021]
• {Related topics}
  • Topic
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy, anemia in pregnancy
    • Anemia