What is it about?
This study examined whether holidays, geographical area and donation type (community versus replacement) has any impact on the fluctuation of donations.
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Why is it important?
The number of donations fluctuates over time, leading to varying periods of abundance and shortage within the blood supply. This poses challenges to blood centers to recruit and retain enough donors and strategically collect sufficient blood components for a given recipient population.
Perspectives
The seasonal distribution of donations decreased in holidays such as Carnival and Christmas and increased during the Brazilian National Donor Week. Blood banks worldwide should analyze the number of donations regularly and start a campaign on each warning sign.
Dr Cesar de Almeida-Neto
Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo
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This page is a summary of: Temporal distribution of blood donations in three Brazilian blood centers and its repercussion on the blood supply, Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, January 2013, Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH),
DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20130071.
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