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The INTERVAL trial to determine whether intervals between blood donations can be safely and acceptably decreased to optimise blood supply: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in Trials, September 2014
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Title
The INTERVAL trial to determine whether intervals between blood donations can be safely and acceptably decreased to optimise blood supply: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Published in
Trials, September 2014
DOI 10.1186/1745-6215-15-363
Pubmed ID
25230735
Authors

Carmel Moore, Jennifer Sambrook, Matthew Walker, Zoe Tolkien, Stephen Kaptoge, David Allen, Susan Mehenny, Jonathan Mant, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Simon G Thompson, Willem Ouwehand, David J Roberts, John Danesh

Abstract

Ageing populations may demand more blood transfusions, but the blood supply could be limited by difficulties in attracting and retaining a decreasing pool of younger donors. One approach to increase blood supply is to collect blood more frequently from existing donors. If more donations could be safely collected in this manner at marginal cost, then it would be of considerable benefit to blood services. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant in England currently allows men to donate up to every 12 weeks and women to donate up to every 16 weeks. In contrast, some other European countries allow donations as frequently as every 8 weeks for men and every 10 weeks for women. The primary aim of the INTERVAL trial is to determine whether donation intervals can be safely and acceptably decreased to optimise blood supply whilst maintaining the health of donors.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 1%
Unknown 148 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 19%
Researcher 26 17%
Student > Master 20 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 21 14%
Unknown 34 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Psychology 7 5%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 42 28%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 March 2016.
All research outputs
#13,413,381
of 22,764,165 outputs
Outputs from Trials
#3,241
of 5,855 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#118,449
of 249,473 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trials
#46
of 81 outputs
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