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Testing in the years ahead: new pressures and new concerns
Author(s) -
Bove Joseph R.
Publication year - 1990
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.1537-2995.1990.30190117634.x
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , test (biology) , product (mathematics) , medicine , blood bank , business , blood product , public relations , political science , medical emergency , surgery , epistemology , biology , paleontology , philosophy , geometry , mathematics
In the past, testing by blood banks was intended primarily to ensure product quality or donor safety or to meet existing regulations. As a result of recent pressures, especially the AIDS epidemic, additional reasons to test have become evident. Although some of these reasons are not easy to accept, it is appropriate to review them and to evaluate a new approach to reaching blood bank decisions that have public policy implications. It is suggested that The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences sponsor a new and permanent structure for this purpose.