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Title

Blood and blood products : safety and risk / Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine ; Henrik Bendixen, Frederick Manning and Linette Sparacino, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Bendixen, Henrik.
• Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96079410
• Manning, Frederick J.
• Sparacino, Linette R.

Description

xvi, 186 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Blood > Transfusion > Safety measures > Congresses
• Blood Transfusion
• Blood Banks
• Risk
• Safety
• Safety Management
• Blood products > Congresses
• Blood > Congresses
• Congress

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "The talks summarized in this document were originally given at workshops on Current risks of disease transmission (July, 1994); Risk and regulation (January, 1995); and Managing threats to the blood supply (September, 1995)"--Foreword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• I. Current Risks of Disease Transmission. Blood and Blood Components: How Safe Are They Today? / Kenrad E. Nelson. Viral Inactivation of Blood Products: A General Overview / Bernard Horowitz -- II. Guarding the Blood Supply. The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study: Rationale and Methods / Thomas F. Zuck. Demographic and Serologic Characteristics of Volunteer Blood Donors / James J. Korelitz. CDC Surveillance of Donors / Eve M. Lackritz. Surveillance of Recipients / James R. Allen. CDC Surveillance of High-Risk Recipients / Bruce Evatt. CDC Surveillance for Unknown Pathogens / Scott Wetterhall -- III. New Ideas for Safety and Monitoring. Information Technology and Blood Safety / J. Michael Fitzmaurice. Strategies for Dealing with Potentially Infected Recipients / Ernest R. Simon -- IV. Risk Tolerance. Beneficial Aspects of Surgical Transfusion / Richard K. Spence.
• Trade-off of the Risk of Hepatitis and the Benefit of Clotting Factor Concentrates in the 1970s and 1980s / M. Elaine Eyster. Examples of Risks That We Tolerate / Harvey G. Klein -- V. Risk Communication. A Mental Model Approach to Risk Communication / M. Granger Morgan. Risk Communication: Building Credibility / Caron Chess. Attitudes Toward Risk: The Right to Know and the Right to Give Informed Consent / Jonathan D. Moreno. Patients, Informed Consent, and the Health Care Team / David J. Rothman. Communication of Risk and Uncertainty to Patients / Donald Colburn -- VI. No-Fault Insurance. Administrative and "No-Fault" Systems for Compensating Medically Related Injuries / Edward A. Dauer. The Colorado and Utah Models of Compensating Patient Injury / Mason Howard -- VII. Concluding Remarks / Henrik H. Bendixen.

ISBN

0309055830

LCCN

96070494

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Columbia University Libraries