A new method for evaluating the hepatitis risk of the multiply-implicated donor.
The usual method of estimating probability of infectivity for donors implicated in more than one case of post-transfusion hepatitis fails to take adequate account of the donor's past history and underestimates the risk of infectivity. A corrected method of calculation is presented and shown to give substantially different results.
D001782:Blood Donors; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000592:standards*; D002353:Carrier State / Q000097:blood*; D003657:Decision Making; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011336:Probability; D013997:Time Factors; D065227:Transfusion Reaction