The local initiative for emergency blood (LIFE-blood) study: A mixed-methods, single-center exploration of civilian walking blood bank need, feasibility, and safety in a low-resource blood desert.

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Title: The local initiative for emergency blood (LIFE-blood) study: A mixed-methods, single-center exploration of civilian walking blood bank need, feasibility, and safety in a low-resource blood desert.
Authors: Raykar N; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Chelagat T; Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya., Barnes LS; Linda S Barnes Consulting, Seattle, Washington, USA., Kumar N; Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Raguveer V; Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Makanga C; Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya., Musa A; Lodwar County Referral Hospital, Lodwar, Kenya., Williams W; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Lokoel G; Department of Medical Services, Turkana County Government, Lodwar, Kenya., Onyango SO; Lodwar County Referral Hospital, Lodwar, Kenya., Mutebi E; Lodwar County Referral Hospital, Lodwar, Kenya., Esekon E; Lodwar County Referral Hospital, Lodwar, Kenya., Cap AP; Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA., Delaney M; Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Children's National Hospital Washington DC, Washington, District of Columbia, USA., Del Signore M; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA., Dey T; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Gupta S; Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Kumar P; Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya., Kundu S; Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Mathew F; Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Puyana JC; Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA., Roy N; University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda., Sawhney R; Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Stoeger E; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Thivalapill N; Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA., Thompson AA; Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Valencia AM; Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA., Wangamati CW; Coalition of Blood for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
Source: Transfusion [Transfusion] 2025 Dec; Vol. 65 (12), pp. 2293-2305. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Nov 14.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal Info: Publisher: American Association Of Blood Banks Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0417360 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1537-2995 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00411132 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Transfusion Subsets: MEDLINE
Database: MEDLINE Ultimate
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ISSN:1537-2995
DOI:10.1111/trf.18460