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Thalassemias, Sickle cell disease and other variant hemoglobins

Australia and New Zealand transfusion medicine guidelines, position papers and consensus statements

EBA position papers and fact sheets

UK guidance for blood services, including component specification, preparation, testing and donor selection for blood and tissues.

BSH site with a wide range of guidelines, position papers and good practice papers on clinical and laboratory aspects of transfusion, haematology and haemostasis.

Multiple barriers to the safety and availability of blood components for transfusion were identified in the 2015 Global Database on Blood Safety, many of which derive from weak regulatory oversight, insufficient financing, and fragmentation of the national blood system. Centralization of key functions of the blood service within a limited number of blood establishments, particularly testing and processing of blood donations, can overcome several shortcomings that often exist in decentralized blood systems that are highly fragmented.

Canadian Paediatric Society

This guidance document has been produced by WHO to assist blood services in the development of national plans to respond to any emerging infectious threats to the sufficiency or safety of the blood supply, whether from an existing infectious agent that is changing in incidence and spread, or from a newly identified infectious agent.

The Transfusion and Anaemia Expertise Initiative (TAXI) Guidelines, 2018

National Blood Authority, Australia

British Society of Haematology

National Blood Authority, Australia

Italian Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology (SIMTI) and Italian Society of Neonatology (SIN)

Arwa Z Al-Riyami, Sabria Al-Hashmi, Zainab Al-Arimi, Louis D Wadsworth, Abdulhakim Al-Rawas, Murtadha Al-Khabori, Shahina Daar