Impact of the May 12, 2008, earthquake on blood donations across five Chinese blood centers

Liu, Jing; Huang, Yi; Wang, Jingxing; Bi, Xingang; Li, Julin; Lü, Yunlai; Wen, Xu; Yao, Fen; Dong, Xiangdong; He, Wenjie; Huang, Mingliang; Ma, Hongli; Mei, Heili; King, Melissa R.; Wright, David J.; Ness, Paul M.; Shan, Hua

doi:10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02665.x

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“…According to a recent study, only 14% of Chinese donors returned for subsequent donations within 9 months . Although there is usually a surge of first‐time donors after major disasters, such as the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, these donors are less likely to become repeat donors in the future . Postearthquake first‐time donors were significantly less likely to return in 1 year, when compared to other first‐time donors .…”

Section: Blood Supply In Chinamentioning

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Blood safety and availability: continuing challenges in China's blood banking system

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Social and economic development, along with increased health care coverage, has caused a sharp increase in the clinical demand for blood in China. Whole blood collection has increased rapidly in the past decade but has failed to keep pace with the ever-increasing demand. Overall, the country's blood safety has been improved with 99% of whole blood donations collected from voluntary unpaid donors. However, the unmet clinical demand for blood and the increasing incidence of human immunodeficiency virus and syphilis in the general population pose new challenges to China's blood banking system. To ensure a safe and adequate blood supply, continued efforts are required to recruit and retain a sufficient number of low-risk voluntary blood donors, improve donor prescreening and blood testing process, ease donor restrictions, and strengthen patient blood management.

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“…In 2008 there was a 'fireman' campaign during the winter vacation in July. There were more than 2000 donations, which represented a 30% increase in collected units compared to the previous year (6) . Additionally, before Carnival, direct mails and short message service (SMS) text messages are also sent to increase the number of donations due to the typical decrease in donations experienced during these festivities.…”

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“…Crawford et al (5) evaluated weekly donation rates from 1995 to 2005 among three Red Cross donor regions in the USA and found a great deal of variation, particularly among younger donors. However, most of the studies correlate donation variation with natural catastrophes, such as the earthquake in China (6) , terrorist attacks, such as September Eleven (7) , or viral epidemics, like influenza outbreaks (8) .…”

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Temporal distribution of blood donations in three Brazilian blood centers and its repercussion on the blood supply

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Almeida‐Neto²,

Liu³

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Revista Brasileira De Hematologia E Hemoterapia

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BackgroundSeasonal distribution of blood donation hinders efforts to provide a safe and adequate blood supply leading to chronic and persistent shortages. This study examined whether holidays, geographical area and donation type (community versus replacement) has any impact on the fluctuation of donations. MethodsThe numbers of blood donations from 2007 through 2010 in three Brazilian Retrovirus Epidemiological Donor Study II (REDS-II) participating centers were analyzed according to the week of donation. The weeks were classified as holiday or non-holiday. To compare donations performed during holiday versus non-holiday weeks, tabulations and descriptive statistics for weekly donations by blood center were examined and time series analysis was conducted. ResultsThe average weekly number of donations varied according to the blood center and type of week. The average number of donations decreased significantly during Carnival and Christmas and increased during the Brazilian National Donor Week. The fluctuation was more pronounced in Recife and Belo Horizonte when compared to São Paulo and higher among community donors. ConclusionNational bank holidays affect the blood supply by reducing available blood donations. Blood banks should take into account these oscillations in order to plan local campaigns, aiming at maintaining the blood supply at acceptable levels.

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“…This assumption is justified by Haijema et al (2007Haijema et al ( , 2009 and Duan and Liao (2013). The daily actual blood supply is also uncertain, using regression analysis of donations from five blood centers, Liu et al (2010) found that the average daily blood donation in a week generally follows a Poisson distribution. Therefore, in our research, the daily collection and demand for RBC in both the affected blood banks and rescue blood banks are assumed to be independent of each other and identically distributed, following Poisson distribution.…”

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Age-based policy for blood transshipment during blood shortage

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2015

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Re

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Impact of the May 12, 2008, earthquake on blood donations across five Chinese blood centers

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Blood safety and availability: continuing challenges in China's blood banking system

Blood safety and availability: continuing challenges in China's blood banking system

Temporal distribution of blood donations in three Brazilian blood centers and its repercussion on the blood supply

Age-based policy for blood transshipment during blood shortage

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