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A new method for evaluating the hepatitis risk of the multiply‐implicated donor
Author(s) -
LADD DANIEL J.,
HILLIS ARGYE
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1984.24184122569.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatitis , virology , hepatitis c , computational biology , biology
The usual method of estimating probability of infectivity for donors implicated in more than one case of post‐transfusion hepatitis fails to take adequate account of the donor's past history and underestimates the risk of infectivity. A corrected method of calculation is presented and shown to give substantially different results.