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- Title
Paid donors: a contradiction in terms and contraindicated in practice.
- Authors
Sayers, Merlyn H.
- Abstract
ABBREVIATIONS PDMPs plasma-derived medicinal products PPTA Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association It is tempting to offer a few remarks about Titmuss when discussing how commercial interests might influence what has traditionally been regarded as an exclusively altruistic endeavor. Both Titmuss and Hagen were concerned that payment jeopardized transfusion safety, a relationship that was revisited during the grim recognition that HIV transmission was a risk, especially for concentration-dependent people with hemophilia. There is evidence that paid apheresis donors at the University of Iowa and the Mayo Clinic were no riskier than unpaid donors.[[3]] Furthermore, serologic testing for infectious disease markers in donors has progressed to the point that infectious complications in transfusion recipients, while not absent, have been minimized. Results of research into a role for payment of both source plasma and conventional blood and component donors are available, but evidence for efficacy is mixed.
- Subjects
HEMAPHERESIS; SOCIAL scientists; BLOOD plasma
- Publication
Transfusion, 2020, Vol 60, pS138
- ISSN
0041-1132
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/trf.15612