Blood and blood products : safety and risk /
Saved in:
| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996. |
|---|---|
| Description: | xvi, 186 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2576017 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Current Risks of Disease Transmission. Blood and Blood Components: How Safe Are They Today? / Kenrad E. Nelson. Viral Inactivation of Blood Products: A General Overview / Bernard Horowitz
- II. Guarding the Blood Supply. The Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study: Rationale and Methods / Thomas F. Zuck. Demographic and Serologic Characteristics of Volunteer Blood Donors / James J. Korelitz. CDC Surveillance of Donors / Eve M. Lackritz. Surveillance of Recipients / James R. Allen. CDC Surveillance of High-Risk Recipients / Bruce Evatt. CDC Surveillance for Unknown Pathogens / Scott Wetterhall
- III. New Ideas for Safety and Monitoring. Information Technology and Blood Safety / J. Michael Fitzmaurice. Strategies for Dealing with Potentially Infected Recipients / Ernest R. Simon
- IV. Risk Tolerance. Beneficial Aspects of Surgical Transfusion / Richard K. Spence. Trade-off of the Risk of Hepatitis and the Benefit of Clotting Factor Concentrates in the 1970s and 1980s / M. Elaine Eyster. Examples of Risks That We Tolerate / Harvey G. Klein
- V. Risk Communication. A Mental Model Approach to Risk Communication / M. Granger Morgan. Risk Communication: Building Credibility / Caron Chess. Attitudes Toward Risk: The Right to Know and the Right to Give Informed Consent / Jonathan D. Moreno. Patients, Informed Consent, and the Health Care Team / David J. Rothman. Communication of Risk and Uncertainty to Patients / Donald Colburn
- VI. No-Fault Insurance. Administrative and "No-Fault" Systems for Compensating Medically Related Injuries / Edward A. Dauer. The Colorado and Utah Models of Compensating Patient Injury / Mason Howard
- VII. Concluding Remarks / Henrik H. Bendixen.
