Harjot Kaur

Research

Notification Rate and Counseling for Seropositive Donors in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital at Amritsar (Punjab), India

Global Journal of Medical Research February 28, 2015

Introduction: Screening for Transfusion transmitted infections (TTIÒ€ℒs) is done to provide safe blood. Very often donors are found to be seropositive for one or more of the TTIÒ€ℒs. The present study was undertaken in a blood bank of a tertiary care hospital to determine the response rate of the blood donors after they were notified about their reactive status. Materials and Methods: The one year observational study was done in a prospective manner from January 2013 Γ’β‚¬β€œ December 2013 taking in account of all the registered donors coming to the blood bank after notification.