Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Blood Donors

Blood donors are individuals who voluntarily provide whole blood or specific components for transfusion, forming the foundation of the blood supply that sustains surgery, trauma care, obstetrics, oncology, and the management of hematologic disorders. Transfusion medicine depends on donor recruitment, eligibility scr…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 31× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 3070-1937 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Blood donors are individuals who voluntarily provide whole blood or specific components for transfusion, forming the foundation of the blood supply that sustains surgery, trauma care, obstetrics, oncology, and the management of hematologic disorders. Transfusion medicine depends on donor recruitment, eligibility screening, and the safety of donated units, particularly the detection of transfusion-transmissible infections and the immunohematologic characterization of donor blood. Research on blood donors addresses seroprevalence of infectious agents among donor populations, confirmatory diagnostic testing, donor knowledge and misconceptions, red cell antigen profiling, and the systems that organize donation and distribution. The peer-reviewed work in this area reflects these themes, including seroprevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen, hepatitis C, and HIV among blood donors, the value of confirmation tests in diagnosing viral hepatitis C in donors, blood donation knowledge and misconceptions in survey populations, Duffy red cell antigen phenotyping in pregnant women, the correlation of glucose and apoptosis in stored platelets, and collaborative blood-management systems to strengthen transfusion services. Studies of organ and tissue donation ethics situate donation within broader transplantation contexts. Methods span serological and molecular screening, immunohematologic typing, survey research, and health-systems analysis. This body of research treats blood donors as the indispensable source of safe transfusion products whose screening, characterization, and engagement are central to transfusion safety.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 31 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Blood Transfusion (ISSN 3070-1937).

Journal editorial board
PROF OSARO ERHABOR · United Kingdom Nobu Akiyama · Japan Young-Kyun Lee · South Korea

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