Clinical Blood Transfusion: History, Development, Need, Demand and Use
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Hematology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026 | Viewed by 135
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The WHO has been involved in blood transfusion since 1975, mapping the world and producing numerous excellent teachings and information documents, organizing workshops on the technical laboratory and manufacturing aspects all over the world and since 2000, focusing on safety and quality management of the National Blood Systems inclusive legislative and regulatory frameworks. There has been acceptable progress in the development of the countries in need, largely Low- and Medium-Human Development countries, home to 84% of the global population.
WHO created in 2020 an important Action Framework to Advance Universal Access to Safe, Effective and Quality-assured Blood Products 2020-2023 and in 2023 an even more important Guidance to Identify Barriers in Blood Services Using the Blood System Self-assessment Tool’and togetehr with the then USAID and the BCG (Boston Consulting Group), the tool as a Web Annex, available to all countries involved.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the development of clinical blood transfusion. We consider contributions addressing this scope against the background of the LM-HDI countries that contribute to that development.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
Topic 1—An appropriately structured and well coordinated and sustainably resourced national blood system.
Topic 2—An appropriate and supportive national framework
Topic 3—Functioning and efficiently managed health systems
Topic 4—Effective implementation of patient blood management to optimize clinical practice of blood transfusion
Topic 5—Effective surveillance, haemovigilance and pharmacovigilance, supported by accurate, clean and comprehensive data systems.
Prof. Dr. Cees Th Smit Sibinga
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- clinical blood transfusion
- quality management
- demands
- needs
- uses
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