title: [Confidential donor self-exclusion for raising the safety of blood preparations].
abstract: Since July 1987 the German Red Cross Baden-Württemberg has practised confidential and anonymous self-exclusion of potential blood donours. The answers given by all donours of the Red Cross Blood Donour Service in Baden-Württemberg (n = 297,648) between 23. 2. 1988 and 31. 1. 1989 were analysed. Virological data of self-exclusion donours (n = 1910) and of a control group (n = 1856) were compared. No donour who had excluded himself was anti-HIV positive, but two of the donours who had designated their blood for transfusion. Those that had excluded their blood donation had a significantly higher prevalence of hepatitis B markers. There was no significantly higher prevalence than among other blood donours with respect to anti-CMV antibodies, syphilis and increased GPT levels. The proportion of male first-time donours was twice as high among self-excluders than among those who released their blood for subsequent donation.
authors: DRK-Blutspendezentrale, Universität Ulm.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Koerner
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Peichl-Hoffmann
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Kubanek
mesh_terms: D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D001688:Biological Products / Q000592:standards*; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D001769:Blood; D001782:Blood Donors; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000592:standards*; D003587:Cytomegalovirus / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D001688:Biological Products; D015415:Biomarkers
vernacular_title: Vertraulicher Spenderselbstausschluss zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit von Blutpräparaten.