197 – Contributed Poster Presentations: Survey Research Methods Section
Rapid Response Survey of Blood Donors in Support of Public Health
Steve A. Anderson
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Walter Bialkowski
Blood Research and Medical Sciences Institutes
Lauren Crowder
American Red Cross
Brian Custer
Blood Systems, Inc.
Roger Dodd
American Red Cross
Jerome Gottschall
Blood Research and Medical Sciences Institutes
Susan Hinkins
NORC at the University of Chicago
Hany Kamel
Blood Systems, Inc.
Debra Kessler
New York Blood Center
German Leparc
NORC at the University of Chicago
Shannon McEwen
NORC at the University of Chicago
Mark Rebosa
New York Blood Center
Beth Shaz
New York Blood Center
Michael Stern
NORC at the University of Chicago
Susan Stramer
American Red Cross
Whitney Steele
American Red Cross
Farnaz Vahidnia
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Mark Walderhaug
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Barbee Whitaker
AABB
The objective of the study was to develop methodologies and infrastructure in order to quickly survey blood donors in situations where there could be possible exposure to transfusion transmissible pathogens or other potential hazards to the blood supply. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) worked with five Blood Collecting Organizations (BCOs), NORC at the University of Chicago, and the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) to develop sample frames, select samples, and administer web-surveys. This paper describes the general protocol, the response rates and the rapidity of response for two surveys. One survey addressed exposure to ticks and tick-borne infection and the second survey addressed exposure to the Hepatitis E virus.