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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1449</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>DONOR PROFILE AND BLOOD SAFETY: COMPARISON BETWEEN FIXED (INSTITUTE) AND MOBILE SITE (CAMP) BLOOD COLLECTIONS&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>.Abhishekh</surname><given-names>B</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>K.C.Usha</surname><given-names/></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>32</fpage><lpage>35</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: The importance of blood safety in public health was recognized long ago and data are essential to plan strategies to improve its status. Ability to ensure an adequate blood supply depends on knowing and understanding donor demographics and characteristics and their impact on collections. Objectives: To explore and compare the demographic profile and seropositivity among donors donating whole blood at fixed and mobile donation sites. Methods: The information of all the donors registered and donated blood was collected from the donor registration forms. Serological results of the donors were obtained from the Transfusion Transmitted Disease Screening division of the department. Data were entered into Microsoft excel sheet and results analyzed on SPSS software version 10. Results: In fixed site female donors contributed for about 1% of donations while at the mobile site their participation attributed to 18% of donations. Seropositivity was slightly higher among donors at fixed site (HBV-2.5%, HIV-1.1%) when compared to donors at the mobile site (HBV-1.8%, HIV-0.6%). The vasovagal reactions among donors were around 4% in fixed site and around 3% at mobile sites.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>fixed site</kwd><kwd> mobile site</kwd><kwd> donor profile</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
