IQCE Policy Brief No. 3 by Torsten ChandlerBlood donation and donors: insights from a large German teaching hospital

15 December 2019

IQCE Policy Brief No. 3, December 2019: "Blood donation and donors: insights from a large German teaching hospital" by Torsten Chandler

Key Findings

• In line with other regions in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, we observe falling donations and donors.

• The findings appear to contradict an overall trend observed in the case of volunteerism in Germany.

• Donors donated well below their capacity and their blood type was in line with the wider German donor population.

Latest articles

05.05.2021|IQCE Current

Final Results Report

The IQCE team is happy to introduce the final results report. In the following document, we describe the objectives and results achieved in the program following the structure of the work packages initially defined in the project.

European Training Network
“Improving Quality of Care”
FINAL RESULTS...

09.04.2021|IQCE Current

A new scientific paper "Blood donation in times of crisis"

"Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID-19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries" by Torsten Chandler, Sebastian Neumann-Böhme, Iryna Sabat, Pedro Pita Barros, Werner Brouwer, Job van Exel, Jonas Schreyögg, Aleksandra Torbica, and...