title: [Which place for physicians in blood supply?].
abstract: Historically, blood transfusion has been divised, enhanced and organized by physicians. The special status of blood led to ensure that collection of blood and its components were placed under the supervision of a physician. Throughout its history, blood transfusion organization in France has established an exclusive exercise of the collection of blood and its components entrusted to doctors, thus creating the concept of "medicine of donation". This view is changing, and programmed exercise of this activity by nurses led to question about this profession perimeter, its necessary evolution, and finally about the place of physicians in blood supply.
authors.affiliation: Établissement français du sang Bretagne, rue Pierre-Jean-Gineste, 35000 Rennes, France. bruno.danic@efs.sante.fr
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authors.lastname: Danic
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authors.lastname: Pelletier
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000458:organization & administration; D058731:Blood Safety; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D005602:France; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010819:Physician's Role / Q000266:history; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000266:history / Q000592:standards