Notification Rate and Counseling for Seropositive Donors in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at Amritsar (Punjab), India

Authors

  • Harjot Kaur

  • Sanjay Piplani

  • Rahul Mannan

  • Mridu Manjari

  • Swati Arora

Keywords:

donor, notification rate, seropositivity, screening, transfusion transmitted infection

Abstract

Introduction: Screening for Transfusion transmitted infections (TTI#x2019;s) is done to provide safe blood. Very often donors are found to be seropositive for one or more of the TTI#x2019;s. The present study was undertaken in a blood bank of a tertiary care hospital to determine the response rate of the blood donors after they were notified about their reactive status. Materials and Methods: The one year observational study was done in a prospective manner from January 2013 #x2013; December 2013 taking in account of all the registered donors coming to the blood bank after notification.

How to Cite

Notification Rate and Counseling for Seropositive Donors in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at Amritsar (Punjab), India. (2015). Global Journal of Medical Research, 15(C1), 13-16. https://medicalresearchjournal.org/index.php/GJMR/article/view/883

References

Notification Rate and Counseling for Seropositive Donors in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at Amritsar (Punjab), India

Published

2015-01-15

How to Cite

Notification Rate and Counseling for Seropositive Donors in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at Amritsar (Punjab), India. (2015). Global Journal of Medical Research, 15(C1), 13-16. https://medicalresearchjournal.org/index.php/GJMR/article/view/883