Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Anemia and hemoglobinopathies

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

 

Anemia

• Afghanistan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Reducing Anemia Prevalence in Afghanistan: Socioeconomic Correlates and the Particular Role of Agricultural Assets [2016]
• Africa
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Reducing the burden of anemia in infants and young children in malaria-endemic countries of Africa: from evidence to action [2004]
• Bangladesh
  • BMC Pediatrics
    • Determinants of anemia among 6–59 months aged children in Bangladesh: evidence from nationally representative data [2016]
  • 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Cuba
  • MEDICC Review
    • Anemia in children under five years old in Eastern Cuba, 2005-2011 [2014]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Anaemia
• Ethiopia
  • BMJ Open
    • Anaemia prevalence and associated factors among lactating mothers in Ethiopia: evidence from the 2005 and 2011 demographic and health surveys [2015]
• Ghana
  • BMC Public Health
    • Prevalence of anemia among under-5 children in the Ghanaian population: estimates from the Ghana demographic and health survey [2014]
• India
  • Jornal de Pediatria
    • Socio-economic and demographic determinants of childhood anemia [2015]
• Indonesia
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
    • Anaemia prevalence over time in Indonesia: estimates from the 1997, 2000, and 2008 Indonesia Family Life Surveys [2015]
• International
  • Blood
    • A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010 [2014]
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Anemia
  • Lancet Global Health
    • 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]
  • Network for Advancement of Transfusion Alternatives
    • Detection, evaluation, and management of preoperative anaemia in the elective orthopaedic surgical patient: NATA guidelines [2011]
• Iran
  • Acta Medica Iranica
    • Anemia as a public health issue in Mashhad, Iran: evidence from the first population-based study [2015]
• Kuwait
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Prevalence and Determinants of Anemia and Iron Deficiency in Kuwait [2015]
• Malaysia
  • PLoS ONE
    • Haematological Reference Intervals in a Multiethnic Population [2014]
• Myanmar
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Prevalence of Anemia and Its Risk Factors Among Lactating Mothers in Myanmar [2014]
• Uganda
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    • Prevalence and Factors Associated with Anemia Among Children Under 5 Years of Age—Uganda, 2009 [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • British Committee for Standards in Haematology Guidelines on the Identification and Management of Pre-Operative Anaemia [2015]
    • Guidelines on the management of anaemia and red cell transfusion in adult critically ill patients [2013]
    • BCSH Guidelines
  • NHS England
    • Treatment of iron overload for transfused and non transfused patients with chronic inherited anaemias [2016]
  • Public Health England
    • Anaemia: migrant health guide
• United States of America
  • American College of Physicians
    • Treatment of Anemia in Patients With Heart Disease: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians [2013]
  • CDC National Center for Health Statistics
    • Anemia
  • 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]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • The global prevalence of anaemia in 2011 [2015]
    • Worldwide prevalence of anaemia 1993-2005 : WHO global database on anaemia [2008]
    • WHO/UNICEF Statement on Anaemia [2004]
    • Haemoglobin Colour Scale [2004]
    • Database on Anaemia
    • Anaemia
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Thalassemia
    • Sickle cell anemia
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Macrocytic anemia
    • Iron-deficiency anemia
    • Hemolytic anemia
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hemoglobin C disease
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Blood transfusion
    • Aplastic anemia
    • Anemia in kidney disease
    • Anemia in cancer

Anemia in cancer

• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • The role of iron in the management of chemotherapy-induced anemia in cancer patients receiving erythropoiesis-stimulating agents
    • Erythropoietin or darbepoetin for patients with cancer
• Europe
  • European Society for Medical Oncology
    • 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]
• Germany
  • Anemia
    • Antianemic Treatment of Cancer Patients in German Routine Practice: Data from a Prospective Cohort Study—The Tumor Anemia Registry [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (epoetin and darbepoetin) for treating cancer treatment-induced anaemia (including review of technology appraisal no. 142): a systematic review and economic model [2016]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (epoetin and darbepoetin) for treating anaemia in people with cancer having chemotherapy (including review of TA 142). National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) [2014]
  • 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 of America
  • American Journal of Hematology
    • Diagnosis and treatment of cancer-related anemia [2014]
  • American Society of Hematology
    • American Society of Hematology/American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline update on the use of epoetin and darbepoetin in adult patients with cancer [2010]
    • Use of epoetin and darbepoetin in patients with cancer: 2007 American Society of Hematology/American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline update [2008]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Anemia in kidney disease

• Arab states of the Persian Gulf
  • Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
    • Gulf Cooperation Council-dialysis outcomes and practice patterns study: An overview of anemia management trends at the regional and country specific levels in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries [2016]
• 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]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Short-acting erythropoiesis-stimulating agents for anaemia in predialysis patients
    • Recombinant human erythropoietin versus placebo or no treatment for the anaemia of chronic kidney disease in people not requiring dialysis
    • Parenteral versus oral iron therapy for adults and children with chronic kidney disease
    • Interventions for erythropoietin-resistant anaemia in dialysis patients
    • Haemoglobin and haematocrit targets for the anaemia of chronic kidney disease
    • Frequency of administration of recombinant human erythropoietin for anaemia of end-stage renal disease in dialysis patients
    • Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents for anaemia in chronic kidney disease: are they all the same?
    • Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents for anaemia in adults with chronic kidney disease: a network meta-analysis
    • Early versus delayed erythropoietin for the anaemia of end-stage kidney disease
    • Continuous erythropoiesis receptor activator (CERA) for the anaemia of chronic kidney disease
    • Androgens for the anaemia of chronic kidney disease in adults
• 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
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
    • Anaemia management in patients with chronic kidney disease: a position statement by the Anaemia Working Group of European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) [2009]
• International
  • KDIGO
    • Anemia in CKD [2012]
• Ireland
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
    • Quality of care and practice patterns in anaemia management at specialist kidney clinics in Ireland: a national study [2018]
• Italy
  • 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]
  • Nephron
    • How the Target Hemoglobin of Renal Anemia Should Be? [2015]
• 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]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Anaemia management in people with chronic kidney disease [2015]
  • Renal Association
    • Renal association clinical practice guideline on Anaemia of Chronic Kidney Disease [2017]
• United States of America
  • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
    • Bundled-Rate Legislation for Medicare Reimbursement for Dialysis Services: Implications for Anemia Management with ESAs [2010]
  • Journal of Endocrinology and Diabetes
    • Similar Outcomes for Two Anemia Treatment Strategies among Elderly Hemodialysis Patients with Diabetes [2014]
  • 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}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Aplastic anemia

• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Comparison of a restrictive versus liberal red cell transfusion policy for patients with myelodysplasia, aplastic anaemia, and other congenital bone marrow failure disorders
• Europe
  • 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]
• International
  • Haematologica
    • Diagnostic criteria to distinguish hypocellular acute myeloid leukemia from hypocellular myelodysplastic syndromes and aplastic anemia: recommendations for a standardized approach [2009]
  • Molecular Therapy
    • Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Fanconi Anemia: Report from the 1st International Fanconi Anemia Gene Therapy Working Group Meeting [2011]
• Italy
  • Haematologica
    • Twenty years of the Italian Fanconi Anemia Registry: where we stand and what remains to be learned [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of adult aplastic anaemia [2015]
• United States of America
  • Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Endocrine Disorders in Fanconi Anemia: Recommendations for Screening and Treatment [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Blood transfusion

• Australia
  • 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]
  • National Blood Authority
    • Patient Blood Management Guidelines
  • SA Health
    • Blood management
  • Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
    • Donor Research in Australia: Challenges and Promise [2014]
• Canada
  • Alberta Health Services
    • Transfusion of Blood Components and Products [2015]
  • BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office
    • BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office - Resources
  • National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products
    • Clinical review: Canadian National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products--Massive transfusion consensus conference 2011: report of the panel [2011]
    • National Blood Shortages Plan (NAC & CBS)
• Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Caribbean Regional Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services, 2. ed. [2013]
• China
  • International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
    • The plasma and platelet are important in reducing the mortality in surgical massive blood transfusion: a large multicenter study in China [2015]
    • Investigation of the current situation of massive blood transfusion in different surgical departments: a large multicenter study in China [2015]
    • Association between frequency of blood tests and mortality rate in patients undergoing massive blood transfusion: a multicenter study in five regions of China [2015]
    • Application status of blood constituents during massive blood transfusion in some regions of China [2014]
  • Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
    • Blood Donor Management in China [2014]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Prolonged storage of packed red blood cells for blood transfusion
    • Oral or parenteral iron supplementation to reduce deferral, iron deficiency and/or anaemia in blood donors
    • Cell salvage for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion
    • Anti-fibrinolytic use for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion
• Denmark
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Monitoring compliance with transfusion guidelines in hospital departments by electronic data capture [2014]
• Europe
  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
    • Intraoperative transfusion practices in Europe [2016]
  • European Blood Alliance
    • The value to blood establishments of supplier quality audit and of adopting a European Blood Alliance collaborative approach [2014]
• Europe, Central Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Training workshop on achieving 100% voluntary non-remunerated blood donation for priority countries in Europe and Central Asia (2010) [2010]
• Germany
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
    • Transfusion of Packed Red Cells [2015]
• International
  • Canadian Journal of Surgery
    • Fresh whole blood transfusion capability for Special Operations Forces [2015]
  • Network for Advancement of Transfusion Alternatives
    • Focused Update: Perioperative Management of Jehovah’s Witness Patients in Relation to Their Refusal of Allogeneic Blood Transfusion [2013]
    • Focused Update: The Management of Massive Hemorrhage/Transfusion in Civilian Trauma [2012]
• Italy
  • Blood Transfusion
    • 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]
  • Società Italiana di Medicina Trasfusionale e Immunoematologia
    • Recommendations for the transfusion management of patients in the peri-operative period. III. The post-operative period [2011]
    • Recommendations for the transfusion management of patients in the peri-operative period. II. The intra-operative period [2011]
    • Recommendations for the transfusion management of patients in the peri-operative period. I. The pre-operative period [2011]
    • Recommendations for the transfusion of plasma and platelets [2009]
• Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Pan American Health Organization
    • Supply of Blood for Transfusion in Latin American and Caribbean Countries, 2014 and 2015 [2017]
• Myanmar
  • Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
    • Status report of the blood transfusion services in Myanmar [2009]
• Oman
  • Ministry of Health Oman
    • Development of blood transfusion service in Sultanate of Oman [2010]
• Peru
  • Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health Reviews
    • An Analysis of and Recommendations for the Peruvian Blood Collection and Transfusion System [2016]
• 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]
• 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]
• United Kingdom
  • Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
    • The use of blood components and their alternatives 2016 [2016]
    • Blood transfusion and the anaesthetist: management of massive haemorrhage [2010]
    • Blood Transfusion and the Anaesthetists - Intra-operative Cell Salvage [2009]
    • Blood Transfusion and the Anaesthetist - Red Cell Transfusion [2008]
  • 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 Society for Haematology
    • The administration of blood components: a British Society for Haematology Guideline [2017]
  • Joint United Kingdom (UK) Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee
    • JPAC
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Blood transfusion. National Clinical Guideline Centre [2015]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Blood transfusion quality standard [2016]
    • Blood transfusion [2015]
• United States of America
  • AABB
    • Red Blood Cell Transfusion: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the AABB [2012]
  • 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
• Western Pacific
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Management of National Blood Programmes [2010]
    • Design Guidelines for Blood Centres [2010]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Towards 100% voluntary blood donation [2010]
    • Global consultation on 100% voluntary non-remunerated blood donation of blood and blood components [2009]
    • The Clinical Use of Blood in Medicine, Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Surgery and Anaesthesia, Trauma and Burns [2001]
    • Clinical Use of Blood Handbook [2001]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Blood transfusion: blood safety
    • Anemia

Blood transfusion: blood safety

• Brazil
  • Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
    • Brazilian blood donation eligibility criteria for dermatologic patients [2012]
• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Transfusion and risk of infection in Canada: Update 2012 [2015]
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
    • Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infections Division
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Skin preparation with alcohol versus alcohol followed by any antiseptic for preventing bacteraemia or contamination of blood for transfusion
    • Leukoreduction for the prevention of adverse reactions from allogeneic blood transfusion
• Croatia
  • Blood Transfusion
    • Error management in blood establishments: results of eight years of experience (2003–2010) at the Croatian Institute of Transfusion Medicine [2012]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Strategic framework for blood safety and availability 2016–2025 [2017]
• Economic Cooperation Organization
  • Blood Transfusion
    • The status of blood safety in ECO member states [2015]
• Europe
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Regional meeting of blood service managers (2007) [2007]
    • Blood safety
• France
  • Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology
    • Hypersensitivity Reactions to Blood Components: Document Issued by the Allergy Committee of the French Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency [2011]
• Gabon
  • Blood Transfusion
    • The risk of transfusion-transmitted viral infections at the Gabonese National Blood Transfusion Centre [2014]
• India
  • 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
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Progress Toward Strengthening National Blood Transfusion Services — 14 Countries, 2011–2014 [2016]
• Iran
  • Archives of Iranian Medicine
    • Trends in Sero-Epidemiology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Voluntary Blood Donations in Iran, 2008-2013 [2017]
  • Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences
    • A Systematic Review for Estimation of HTLV-I Infection in the Blood Donors of Iran [2013]
  • Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
    • Emerging Infectious Threats to the Blood Supply: Seroepidemiological Studies in Iran – a Review [2013]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• Poland
  • Epidemiological Review
    • Blood donors screening for blood born viruses in Poland [2015]
• 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]
• South-Eastern Europe
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • South-eastern Europe Regional Health Development Centre for Health Safety : current status and future strategies in safe blood and blood components' transnational availability for medical emergencies and special circumstances in south-eastern Europe [2011]
    • Current status and future strategies in safe blood for emergencies in South-eastern Europe [2011]
    • Blood services in south-eastern Europe: current status and challenges [2007]
• Switzerland
  • Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
    • Selective Testing of At-Risk Blood Donors for Trypanosoma cruzi and Plasmodium spp. in Switzerland [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guideline on the investigation and management of acute transfusion reactions Prepared by the BCSH Blood Transfusion Task Force [2012]
• United States of America
  • Food and Drug Administration
    • Blood & Blood Products
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Blood safety and availability [2016]
    • A guide to establishing a national haemovigilance system [2016]
    • Ethics of using convalescent whole blood and convalescent plasma during the Ebola epidemic [2015]
    • Blood donor selection [2012]
    • Screening donated blood for transfusion-transmissible infections: recommendations [2009]
    • Safe blood and blood products [2009]
    • Universal access to safe blood transfusion [2008]
    • The Blood Cold Chain [2002]
    • Aide-Mémoire on Quality Systems for Blood Safety [2002]
    • Aide-Mémoire on Blood Safety for National Blood Programmes [2002]
    • Recommendations from the WHO Regional Workshop on Quality Assurance and Safety of Plasma Derivatives [2001]
    • Blood Safety and Clinical Technology Strategy 2000-2003 [2001]
    • Blood Tranfusion Safety
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  • Guidelines
    • Blood transfusion

Hemoglobin C disease

• Africa
  • Scientific Reports
    • The distribution of haemoglobin C and its prevalence in newborns in Africa [2013]
• Articles in journals
  • Blood
    • HbC disorders [2013]
  • eMedicine
    • Hemoglobin C Disease
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Hemoglobinopathies

• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Interventions for improving adherence to iron chelation therapy in people with sickle cell disease or thalassaemia
• Cyprus
  • Scientific Reports
    • The molecular spectrum and distribution of haemoglobinopathies in Cyprus: a 20-year retrospective study [2016]
• Europe
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • Haemoglobinopathies in Europe: health & migration policy perspectives [2014]
• Greece
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Haemoglobinopathies in Greece: prevention programme over the past 35 years [2011]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Human Genetics
    • Guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management of hemoglobinopathies [2014]
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Haemoglobinopathies in tribal populations of India [2015]
• International
  • Haematologica
    • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in thalassemia major and sickle cell disease: indications and management recommendations from an international expert panel [2014]
• Iran
  • Archives of Iranian Medicine
    • Burden of Hemoglobinopathies (Thalassemia, Sickle Cell Disorders and G6PD Deficiency) in Iran, 1990-2010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 [2015]
  • 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]
• Netherlands
  • Ethnicity & Health
    • A case study of haemoglobinopathy screening in the Netherlands: witnessing the past, lessons for the future [2012]
• South-East Asia
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Haemoglobinopathies in Southeast Asia [2011]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Significant haemoglobinopathies: guidelines for screening and diagnosis [2010]
  • Public Health England
    • Standards for sickle cell and thalassaemia screening
    • Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening: data collection
    • Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening: commission and provide
    • Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening: care pathway
• United States of America
  • Genetics in Medicine
    • State-based surveillance for selected hemoglobinopathies [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Thalassemia
    • Sickle cell anemia
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobin C disease
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Hemolytic anemia

• 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
  • Journal of Korean Medical Science
    • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Korea [2016]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Annals of Thoracic Medicine
    • Saudi Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension: Pulmonary hypertension associated with hemolytic anemia [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guidelines on the management of drug-induced immune and secondary autoimmune, haemolytic anaemia [2017]
    • The diagnosis and management of primary autoimmune haemolytic anaemia [2016]
    • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of hereditary spherocytosis – 2011 update [2011]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Iron-deficiency anemia

• Brazil
  • Nutrición Hospitalaria
    • Iron deficiency anemia in adolescents; a literature review [2014]
• Canada
  • BCGuidelines
    • Iron deficiency - Investigation and management [2010]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Oral Iron for Anemia: A Review of the Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-effectiveness and Guidelines [2016]
    • Ferumoxytol versus Other Intravenous Iron Therapies for Anemia: A Review of the Clinical and Cost-effectiveness and Guidelines [2014]
• 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]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Iron therapy in anaemic adults without chronic kidney disease
    • Iron therapy for pre-operative anaemia
    • Iron therapy for improving psychomotor development and cognitive function in children under the age of three with iron deficiency anaemia
    • Intermittent iron supplementation for reducing anaemia and its associated impairments in menstruating women
    • Intermittent iron supplementation for improving nutrition and development in children under 12 years of age
    • Daily iron supplementation for improving anaemia, iron status and health in menstruating women
• 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
  • Central European Journal of Public Health
    • What Is the Real Public Health Significance of Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Croatia? A Population-Based Observational Study on Pregnant Women at Early Pregnancy from Eastern Croatia [2015]
• Europe
  • Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
    • Iron Intake and Status of Children Aged 6-36 Months in Europe: A Systematic Review [2015]
  • European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
    • Iron requirements of infants and toddlers [2014]
• France
  • Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases
    • Diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency in patients with heart failure: Expert position paper from French cardiologists [2014]
• India
  • 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]
  • WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health
    • The burden of iron-deficiency anaemia among women in India: how have iron and folic acid interventions fared? [2018]
• International
  • Nutrients
    • The Proportion of Anemia Associated with Iron Deficiency in Low, Medium, and High Human Development Index Countries: A Systematic Analysis of National Surveys [2016]
  • Pathogens and Global Health
    • Body iron delocalization: the serious drawback in iron disorders in both developing and developed countries [2012]
• Low and middle-income countries
  • Blood
    • Control of iron deficiency anemia in low- and middle-income countries [2013]
• Low-income countries
  • Journal of Nutrition
    • Iron Interventions for Women and Children in Low-Income Countries [2011]
• Netherlands
  • Blood
    • Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of microcytic anemias due to genetic disorders of iron metabolism or heme synthesis [2014]
• 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]
  • 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]
• 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]
• South-East Asia
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
    • Prevention of iron deficiency anaemia in adolescents [2011]
• United Kingdom
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guideline for the laboratory diagnosis of functional iron deficiency [2013]
  • British Society of Gastroenterology
    • Guidelines for the management of iron deficiency anaemia [2011]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Guideline for the laboratory diagnosis of functional iron deficiency. British Committee for Standards in Haematology [2013]
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • Iron deficiency and anaemia in adults [2015]
  • UK National Screening Committee
    • Iron Deficiency Anaemia screening in children under 5 years of age
• United States of America
  • 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]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Screening for iron deficiency anemia in young children: USPSTF recommendation statement [2015]
  • U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
    • Iron Deficiency Anemia in Young Children: Screening [2015]
• WHO
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • WHO guideline: daily iron supplementation in infants and children [2016]
    • WHO guideline: daily iron supplementation in adult women and adolescent girls [2016]
  • World Health Organization
    • Daily iron supplementation in infants and children [2016]
    • Daily iron supplementation in adult women and adolescent girls [2016]
    • Intermittent iron supplementation in preschool and school-age children [2011]
    • Intermittent iron and folic acid supplementation in menstruating women [2011]
• Articles in journals
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Iron deficiency anemia in the elderly [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy
    • Blood transfusion
    • Anemia

Macrocytic anemia

• Netherlands
  • BMC Family Practice
    • Prevalence of potential underlying aetiology of macrocytic anaemia in Dutch general practice [2016]
• Articles in journals
  • eMedicine
    • Megaloblastic Anemia
    • Macrocytosis
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Anemia

Sickle cell anemia

• Africa
  • Neurology
    • Neurologic complications of sickle cell disease in Africa [2017]
• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Vitamin D supplementation for sickle cell disease
    • Vaccines for preventing invasive salmonella infections in people with sickle cell disease
    • Treatments for priapism in boys and men with sickle cell disease
    • Treatment of dental complications in sickle cell disease
    • Treatment for avascular necrosis of bone in people with sickle cell disease
    • Steroid hormones for contraception in women with sickle cell disease
    • Splenectomy versus conservative management for acute sequestration crises in people with sickle cell disease
    • Regular long-term red blood cell transfusions for managing chronic chest complications in sickle cell disease
    • Red blood cell transfusion to treat or prevent complications in sickle cell disease: an overview of Cochrane reviews
    • Psychological therapies for sickle cell disease and pain
    • Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease
    • Preoperative blood transfusions for sickle cell disease
    • Pneumococcal vaccines for sickle cell disease
    • Piracetam for reducing the incidence of painful sickle cell disease crises
    • Phytomedicines (medicines derived from plants) for sickle cell disease
    • Magnesium for treating sickle cell disease
    • Low-molecular-weight heparins for managing vaso-occlusive crises in people with sickle cell disease
    • Laser therapy for retinopathy in sickle cell disease
    • Interventions for treating leg ulcers in people with sickle cell disease
    • Interventions for treating intrahepatic cholestasis in people with sickle cell disease
    • Interventions for preventing silent cerebral infarcts in people with sickle cell disease
    • Interventions for patients and caregivers to improve knowledge of sickle cell disease and recognition of its related complications
    • Interventions for chronic kidney disease in people with sickle cell disease
    • Inhaled nitric oxide for acute chest syndrome in people with sickle cell disease
    • Inhaled bronchodilators for acute chest syndrome in people with sickle cell disease
    • Hydroxyurea for sickle cell disease
    • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for people with sickle cell disease
    • Gene therapy for sickle cell disease
    • Folate supplementation in people with sickle cell disease
    • Fluid replacement therapy for acute episodes of pain in people with sickle cell disease
    • Drugs for preventing red blood cell dehydration in people with sickle cell disease
    • Deferasirox for managing transfusional iron overload in people with sickle cell disease
    • Conjugate Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines for sickle cell disease
    • Blood transfusions for treating acute chest syndrome in people with sickle cell disease
    • Blood transfusion for preventing primary and secondary stroke in people with sickle cell disease
    • Antibiotics for treating osteomyelitis in people with sickle cell disease
    • Antibiotics for treating community-acquired pneumonia in people with sickle cell disease
    • Antibiotics for treating acute chest syndrome in people with sickle cell disease
    • Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for proteinuria and microalbuminuria in people with sickle cell disease
• Ghana
  • BMC Nephrology
    • Chronic kidney disease is common in sickle cell disease: a cross-sectional study in the Tema Metropolis, Ghana [2015]
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • Controlling sickle cell disease in Ghana – ethics and options [2011]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Evolving locally appropriate models of care for Indian sickle cell disease [2016]
    • Sickle cell disease in tribal populations in India [2015]
• International
  • Haematologica
    • Environmental determinants of severity in sickle cell disease [2015]
• Italy
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
    • Organizing national responses for rare blood disorders: the Italian experience with sickle cell disease in childhood [2013]
• 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]
  • Federal Ministry of Health
    • National Guideline for the Control and Management of Sickle Cell Disease [2014]
• Nigeria, United States of America
  • Hemoglobin
    • Comparison of Patients from Nigeria and the USA Highlights Modifiable Risk Factors for Sickle Cell Anemia Complications [2014]
• Republic of the Congo
  • Anemia
    • Sickle-Cell Disease Healthcare Cost in Africa: Experience of the Congo [2016]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Annals of Saudi Medicine
    • Epidemiology of sickle cell disease in Saudi Arabia [2011]
• Sudan
  • Pan African Medical Journal
    • The ethnic distribution of sickle cell disease in Sudan [2014]
• Tanzania
  • 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
  • British Society for Haematology
    • Guidelines on red cell transfusion in sickle cell disease. Part I: principles and laboratory aspects [2016]
    • Guidelines on red cell transfusion in sickle cell disease Part II: indications for transfusion [2016]
    • Guideline on the management of acute chest syndrome in sickle cell disease [2015]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Spectra Optia for automatic red blood cell exchange in patients with sickle cell disease [2016]
    • Sickle cell acute painful episode [2014]
    • Sickle cell acute painful episode: management of an acute painful sickle cell episode in hospital [2012]
  • Royal College of Pathologists
    • Guidelines on Autopsy Practice: Autopsy in sickle cell disease and sickle trait persons [2017]
• United States of America
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    • Hydroxyurea for the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease [2008]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Health Supervision for Children With Sickle Cell Disease [2016]
  • American Journal of Hematology
    • Evidence gaps in the management of sickle cell disease: A summary of needed research [2015]
  • American Thoracic Society
    • An official American Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline: diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of pulmonary hypertension of sickle cell disease [2014]
  • CDC National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
    • Sickle Cell Disease
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • CDC Grand Rounds: Improving the Lives of Persons with Sickle Cell Disease [2017]
    • Incidence of Sickle Cell Trait — United States, 2010 [2014]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Managing chronic complications of sickle cell disease. In: Evidence-based management of sickle cell disease. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.) [2014]
    • Managing acute complications of sickle cell disease. In: Evidence-based management of sickle cell disease. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.) [2014]
    • Hydroxyurea therapy in the management of sickle cell disease. In: Evidence-based management of sickle cell disease. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.) [2014]
    • Health maintenance for people with sickle cell disease. In: Evidence-based management of sickle cell disease. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.) [2014]
    • Blood transfusion in the management of sickle cell disease. In: Evidence-based management of sickle cell disease. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.) [2014]
    • An official American Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline: diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of pulmonary hypertension of sickle cell disease [2014]
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
    • Evidence-Based Management of Sickle Cell Disease: Expert Panel Report, 2014 [2014]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Emergency Department Visits and Inpatient Admissions Associated with Priapism among Males with Sickle Cell Disease in the United States, 2006–2010 [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Sickle-cell disease and other haemoglobin disorders [2011]
• Articles in journals
  • Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
    • Clinical biomarkers in sickle cell disease [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Anemia

Thalassemia

• Cochrane
  • Cochrane Library
    • Zinc supplements for treating thalassaemia and sickle cell disease
    • Treatment for osteoporosis in people with ß-thalassaemia
    • Splenectomy for people with thalassaemia major or intermedia
    • Psychological therapies for thalassaemia
    • Oral deferiprone for iron chelation in people with thalassaemia
    • Hydroxyurea for reducing blood transfusion in non-transfusion dependent beta thalassaemias
    • Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for people with ß-thalassaemia major
    • Growth hormone therapy for people with thalassaemia
    • Desferrioxamine mesylate for managing transfusional iron overload in people with transfusion-dependent thalassaemia
    • Deferasirox for managing iron overload in people with thalassaemia
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Past, present & future scenario of thalassaemic care & control in India [2011]
• International
  • Blood
    • Management of chronic viral hepatitis in patients with thalassemia: recommendations from an international panel [2010]
  • Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
    • Growth and endocrine disorders in thalassemia: The international network on endocrine complications in thalassemia (I-CET) position statement and guidelines [2013]
  • Thalassaemia International Federation
    • Guidelines for the Management of Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia (TDT) [2014]
    • Prevention of Thalassaemias and Other Haemoglobin Disorders [2013]
    • Guidelines for the Management of Non Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia (NTDT) [2013]
• Italy
  • Società Italiana di Ematologia
    • Italian Society of Hematology practice guidelines for the management of iron overload in thalassemia major and related disorders [2008]
• Maldives
  • Journal of Community Genetics
    • Falling prevalence of beta-thalassaemia and eradication of malaria in the Maldives [2011]
• Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Medical Journal
    • Molecular nature of alpha-globin genes in the Saudi population [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • UK Thalassaemia Society
    • Standards for the clinical care of children and adults with thalassaemia in the UK [2016]
• United States of America
  • American Heart Association
    • Cardiovascular function and treatment in ß-thalassemia major: a consensus statement from the American Heart Association [2013]
  • Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
    • Guidelines for the Standard Monitoring of Patients with Thalassemia: Report of the Thalassemia Longitudinal Cohort [2015]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Neonatal hematologic disorders
    • Hemoglobinopathies
    • Hematologic diseases in pregnancy
    • Anemia