Interventions to Increase Blood Donation among Ethnic/Racial Minorities: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Ethnic/racial minorities are under-represented in blood donor populations in most developed countries. This is of particular concern where minorities differ from a country's majority population in terms of blood or tissue typing, especially where type matching is required for effective management of rare disorders such as sickle-cell disease that require multiple transfusions. This systematic review assessed the effectiveness of interventions to increase blood donation among ethnic/racial minority populations in developed countries. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and ProQuest on 20 March 2017 with no date restrictions and supplemented this with searches on Google Scholar, blood collection agency websites, reference lists of included studies, and a forward search of citations of inclu

SUBMITTER: Makin JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6501160 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature