title: Recruiting blood donors into a local bone marrow donor registry.
abstract: To date, most persons joining bone marrow donor registries have been recruited from platelet-pheresis panels. The potential of recruiting regular blood donors into bone marrow donor registry (BMDR) was explored. It was found that, with minimal effort, 6.2 percent of the age-eligible blood donors were recruited. A distinguishing feature of those who joined the BMDR was a history of frequent blood donations. Although local media attention had a major impact on recruitment, even those joining as a result of the publicity usually were regular blood donors. This program has the potential to recruit nearly 8000 volunteers from 120,000 regular blood donors over an 18-month period.
authors.affiliation: Puget Sound Blood Center, University of Washington, Seattle.
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Beatty
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Atcher
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Slichter
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001782:Blood Donors; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D010983:Plateletpheresis; D012042:Registries; D012737:Sex Factors; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014861:Washington