Strategies aimed at encouraging current donors to donate more frequently during the first year may help to establish a regular donation behaviour.

Inconvenience is a major barrier to donating, suggesting that mobile collections and increased hours of operation might help recapture lapsed donors. The finding that lapsed minority donors were more likely to give bad treatment and poor staff skills as important reasons to not donate is disconcerting in light of the changing donor demographics and increased efforts to recruit these donors.

The morbidity and mortality of catheter placement and PE are important considerations when PE treatment for clinically suspected TTP-HUS is anticipated.

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The crude HBV incidence rate observed from HBsAg test results will underestimate the true rate. The adjusted HBV incidence rate should be used in applications such as estimations of residual HBV risk to the blood supply and projections of the benefits of screening for HBV DNA.

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