Development and validation of donor adverse reaction severity grading tool: enhancing objective grade assignment to donor adverse events

• Published in: Transfusion (Philadelphia, Pa.) Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 1231 - 1242
• Main Authors: Townsend, Mary, Kamel, Hany, Van Buren, Nancy, Wiersum‐Osselton, Johanna, Rosa‐Bray, Marilyn, Gottschall, Jerome, Rajbhandary, Srijana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.06.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Agreements; Blood & organ donations; Blood donors; Blood transfusion; Complications; Confidence intervals; Evaluation; Reliability analysis; Transfusion

BACKGROUND Uniform and consistent reporting and comparison of donor adverse events (DAEs) and severity are well‐recognized challenges for donor hemovigilance (DHV). While the 2014 Standard for Surveillance of Complications Related to Blood Donation (SSCRBD), developed by hemovigilance experts from A...