title: Legal issues in transfusion medicine. Is blood banking a medical profession?
abstract: In legislation concerning the transfusion of AIDS, the issue of whether blood banking is a profession has become extremely important. The status of blood banking determines how blood center actions will be judged and what liability rules will be applied. The issue was recently hotly argued in the high courts of Colorado and Florida. The courts' decisions impact not only on the outcome of other lawsuits regarding the transfusion of AIDS against blood banks, but also on the way blood bank practices will be made in the future.
authors.affiliation: American Association of Blood Banks, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Barber
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000635:transmission; D001771:Blood Banks / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006281:Health Occupations; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D065227:Transfusion Reaction