Rapporti ISTISAN

Reports containing technical information, data, research protocols, proceedings, training material and the results of other activities carried out by the ISS. Most reports are published in Italian, some are in English.

All reports have an English abstract.

Volumes issued before 2020 are available at https://www.iss.it/it/rapporti-istisan


Back Rapporto ISTISAN 21/14 - Italian Blood System 2020: activity data, haemovigilance and epidemiological surveillance. Liviana Catalano, Vanessa Piccinini, Ilaria Pati, Francesca Masiello, Giuseppe Marano, Simonetta Pupella, Vincenzo De Angelis


Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Italian Blood System 2020: activity data, haemovigilance and epidemiological surveillance.
Liviana Catalano, Vanessa Piccinini, Ilaria Pati, Francesca Masiello, Giuseppe Marano, Simonetta Pupella, Vincenzo De Angelis
2021, iii, 103 p. Rapporti ISTISAN 21/14

The collection of data regarding the activities of the Italian Blood System since 2009 has been carried out through the Italian national blood information system (Sistema Informativo dei Servizi TRAsfusionali, SISTRA). The data collected at national level are those that are communicated to international health authorities. The data in this report are relevant to the year 2020.
Key words: Blood, Red cells; Plasma; Platelets; Blood donation; Blood donors; Self-sufficiency; Transfusion; Adverse reactions; Haemovigilance; Transfusion-transmissible infections; Incidence; Prevalence; Risk factors

Published 27/09/2021