Retention of blood donors

Almeida‐Neto, Cesar de

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“… 19 Though the hospitals try to make up by using onsite bleeding centres, there is a need to explore other strategies to actively recruit and retain blood donors, specifically for emergency situations. 30 Emergency situations are not the time for patients or their relatives to be searching for blood or blood donors.…”

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Multi-stakeholder perspectives on access, availability and utilization of emergency obstetric care services in Lagos, Nigeria: A mixed-methods study

Banke-Thomas

Wright

Sonoiki

et al. 2017

J Public Health Afr

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Globally, Nigeria is the second most unsafe country to be pregnant, with Lagos, its economic nerve center having disproportionately higher maternal deaths than the national average. Emergency obstetric care (EmOC) is effective in reducing pregnancyrelated morbidities and mortalities. This mixed-methods study quantitatively assessed women’s satisfaction with EmOC received and qualitatively engaged multiple key stakeholders to better understand issues around EmOC access, availability and utilization in Lagos. Qualitative interviews revealed that regarding access, while government opined that EmOC facilities have been strategically built across Lagos, women flagged issues with difficulty in access, compounded by perceived high EmOC cost. For availability, though health workers were judged competent, they appeared insufficient, overworked and felt poorly remunerated. Infrastructure was considered inadequate and paucity of blood and blood products remained commonplace. Although pregnant women positively rated the clinical aspects of care, as confirmed by the survey, satisfaction gaps remained in the areas of service delivery, care organization and responsiveness. These areas of discordance offer insight to opportunities for improvements, which would ensure that every woman can access and use quality EmOC that is sufficiently available.

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Multi-stakeholder perspectives on access, availability and utilization of emergency obstetric care services in Lagos, Nigeria: A mixed-methods study

Banke-Thomas

Wright

Sonoiki

et al. 2017

J Public Health Afr

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“…8 It is essential to continuously recruit new donors to replace those who drop or retire from the donation career. 9 The frequency of donations and intentions to donate is not easily predictable and can be regarded as stochastic random variables.…”

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“…Therefore, blood collection agencies should strive to retain regular donors as they are safer and more cost effective than new or unregular donors 8 . It is essential to continuously recruit new donors to replace those who drop or retire from the donation career 9 …”

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A Markov jump process approach to modeling blood donor status: Donor retention and attrition rates at a blood service center in Zimbabwe

Chikobvu

Chideme

2022

Health Science Reports

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Background: Blood service agencies depend upon the availability of regular blood donors for sustainability. The knowledge and understanding of the stochastic behavior of donors is the first step toward sustaining the blood supply. Analyzing the changes in the donor status within the donor pool will help the blood service authorities to manage the blood donation process.Objectives: The study presents a multistate Markov jump model in analyzing the changes in blood donor status during their blood donation career. Relevant covariates are used to aid in explaining the transitions. Materials and Methods:The status of a blood donor i that can be in one of four states S = {1; 2; 3; 4}. A new donor (s = 1), repeat/regular donor (s = 2), occasional donor (s = 3), and lapsed donor (s = 4). A Continuous-time Markov model was used to estimate blood donor progression during their blood donation career. Frequencies of blood donations made in a given time interval determines the state occupied.Results: In the early years of blood donation career, first-time donors have a higher likelihood of becoming regular donors. Donor attrition increases with time whilst donor retention decreases with time. The results show that when the jump process is currently in an occasional state, the probability that it moves into lapsed state when it leaves the occasional state is given as 69.06%. Similarly, donors are forecasted to spend 21.193 months (1.8 years) in the occasional state before lapsing.Repeat donors can spend 39.342 months (3.3 years) in the regular state before the transition to other states. The study established that donor-specific demographic factors such as age and gender are critical in donor status transitions.Conclusions: With the passage of time, donor status evolves, with trend inclined towards reduction in the frequency of blood donations as more donors become inactive or lapsed. The transition of donors in various states can be described by a time homogeneous Markov model.

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Opinion of women on emergency obstetric care provided in public facilities in Lagos, Nigeria: A qualitative study

Wright

Banke-Thomas

Sonoiki

et al. 2016

Health Care for Women International

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Limited attention has been given to opinions of women receiving emergency obstetric care (EmOC) in developing countries. We organized focus groups with 39 women who received this care from Lagos public facilities. Availability of competent personnel and equipment were two positive opinions highlighted. Contrarily, women expressed concerns regarding the seeming unresponsiveness of the service to nonmedical aspects of care, associated stress of service utilization, and high treatment costs. There is a need to leverage the positive perception of women regarding the available technical resources while improving institutional care components like administrative processes, basic amenities, and costs toward increasing utilization and preventing complications.

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Retention of blood donors

Cited by 3 publications

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Multi-stakeholder perspectives on access, availability and utilization of emergency obstetric care services in Lagos, Nigeria: A mixed-methods study

Multi-stakeholder perspectives on access, availability and utilization of emergency obstetric care services in Lagos, Nigeria: A mixed-methods study

A Markov jump process approach to modeling blood donor status: Donor retention and attrition rates at a blood service center in Zimbabwe

Opinion of women on emergency obstetric care provided in public facilities in Lagos, Nigeria: A qualitative study

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