title: Donor safety: the role of the WMDA in ensuring the safety of volunteer unrelated donors: clinical and ethical considerations.
abstract: Since the beginning of hematopoietic stem cell harvesting from volunteer unrelated donors, ensuring donor safety has been a necessary goal of all parties involved in the process. As donation of BM or PBSCs is not in the interest of the donor's own physical health, donor registries and transplantation centers must take into account both medical and ethical aspects involved in the donation procedure. One of the principal goals leading to the formation of the World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) was to establish internationally acceptable standards for all aspects of unrelated donor care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Haematology, Anthony Nolan Trust, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. Bronwen.Shaw@icr.ac.uk
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ball
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beksac
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bengtsson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Confer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Diler
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fechter
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Greinix
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nicoloso-De-Faveri
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Philippe
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pollichieni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pulsipher
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: E
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authors.lastname: Yang
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authors.lastname: van Walraven
mesh_terms: D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D012042:Registries / Q000592:standards; D012449:Safety; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000941:ethics; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous