Recruiting blood donors into a local bone marrow donor registry.
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.
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Puget Sound Blood Center, University of Washington, Seattle.
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Hess
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Meyer
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Slichter
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D000367:Age Factors; D001782:Blood Donors; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D010983:Plateletpheresis; D012042:Registries; D012737:Sex Factors; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014861:Washington