Korean J Blood Transfus.  2017 Apr;28(1):28-35. 10.17945/kjbt.2017.28.1.28.

Analysis of Blood Donors in a Tertiary Care Hospital as a Fixed Collection Site

• Lee HJ
• Shin KH
• Song D
• Lee SM
• Kim IS
• Chang CL
• Kim HH

• KMID: 2379721
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.17945/kjbt.2017.28.1.28

Abstract

BACKGROUND
Blood transfusion is important when treating patients with anemia or bleeding; thus, supply of blood components should be stable prior to transfusion. To recruit donors, blood donation sites should be conveniently located. This study evaluated factors responsible for increased donation rates in hospitals and the characteristics of the donors in hospital blood banks without a fixed blood collection site nearby.
METHODS
We retrospectively reviewed 687 blood donations at a blood donation center in Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital (PNUYH) from March 2011 to June 2016. A total of 3,053,695 blood donors listed in the 2014 Korean Red Cross Annual Report were compared to donors in PNUYH. We analyzed the age distribution of donor at blood donation centers from Korean Red Cross according to presence and number of high school and college.
RESULTS
Comparison with total blood donors in Korea revealed that there were more blood donors in their thirties, office workers and business owners at PNUYH (P<0.001). The percentage of younger donors in their twenties differed significantly according to the presence of a college within a 4 km radius of the blood donation center (P=0.03). The presence of a high school did not affect the proportion of teenage donors (P=0.833).
CONCLUSION
The blood donation rate at our medical institution without fixed blood collection sites nearby increased. A regional hospital may be used as a blood collection site to recruit donors in areas in which there are no fixed blood donation centers.

Keyword

Blood donation; Accessibility; Donation rate

MeSH Terms

Age Distribution
Anemia
Blood Banks
Blood Donors*
Blood Transfusion
Busan
Commerce
Gyeongsangnam-do
Hemorrhage
Humans
Korea
Radius
Red Cross
Retrospective Studies
Tertiary Healthcare*
Tissue Donors