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Chapters

University repository

Chapter 1

Introduction

Part A: Ranking the risk of emerging infections for blood safety

Chapter 2

A consensus-based tool for ranking the risk of blood transmissible infections.
Accepted for publication in Transfusion.

Chapter 3

Insight in ‘calculated risk’: An application to the prioritization of emerging infectious diseases for blood transfusion safety.
Submitted to Risk Analysis.

Part B: Quantification of the risk of emerging infection transmission through blood transfusion

Chapter 4

Modelling the transmission of emerging infectious diseases through blood transfusion.
Transfusion 2013; 53(7):1421-8.

Chapter 4a

Appendix of the Modelling the transmission of emerging infectious disease through blood transfusion: Assessing the quantitative risk of infectious diseases to blood safety –evaluation of the European Up-Front Risk Assessment Tool (EUFRAT).

Chapter 5

Modelling the risk of transfusion transmission from travelling donors.
BMC Infect Dis 2016; 16(1):143.

Part C: Travel behaviour of Dutch blood donors

Chapter 6

Travel behaviour and deferral of Dutch blood donors: consequences for donor availability.
Transfusion 2015; 55(1):79-85.

Part D: Estimating the risk of emerging infection transmission for the Dutch blood supply

Chapter 7

Estimating the transfusion transmission risk of Q fever.
Transfusion 2014; 54(7):1705-11.

Chapter 8

Estimating the risk of dengue transmission from Dutch blood donors travelling to Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean.
Vox Sanguinis 2016 Jan 14 [Epub ahead of print]

Chapter 9

General discussion