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International Society of Blood Transfusion Working Party on Red Cell Immunogenetics and Blood Group Terminology Report of Basel and three virtual business meetings: Update on blood group systems

Christoph Gassner, Lilian Castilho, Qing Chen, Frederik Banch Clausen, Gregory A. Denomme, Willy A. Flegel, Nick Gleadall, Åsa Hellberg, Yanli Ji, Margaret A. Keller, William J. Lane, Peter Ligthart, Christine Lomas-Francis, Nuria Nogues, Martin L. Olsson, Thierry Peyrard, Jill R. Storry, Yoshihiko Tani, Nicole Thornton, Ellen van der Schoot, Barbera Veldhuisen, Franz Wagner, Christof Weinstock, Silvano Wendel, Connie Westhoff, Vered Yahalom, Catherine A. Hyland

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01 Jan 2021

World Health Organisation (WHO) blood donation testing and processing

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.

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