{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,17]],"date-time":"2026-04-17T06:02:01Z","timestamp":1776405721853,"version":"3.51.2"},"reference-count":19,"publisher":"Wiley","issue":"9","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,26]],"date-time":"2024-06-26T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1719360000000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"funder":[{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100000925","name":"National Health and Medical Research Council","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","award":["APP2024579"],"award-info":[{"award-number":["APP2024579"]}],"id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100000925","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Vox Sanguinis"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2024,9]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Background and Objectives<\/jats:title><jats:p>Tattooing is one of the leading donor deferral reasons in Australia. Until September 2020, donors were deferred from all donation types for 4\u2009months after a tattoo. At this time, our guideline changed such that donations of plasma for further manufacture were accepted immediately, provided the tattoo was administered in a licensed or regulated Australian establishment. We examined the effects of this change.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Donors with a tattoo deferral in the 2\u2009years before or after the guideline change were identified and followed up until 3 November 2022. Between the two periods, we compared blood\u2010borne virus (BBV) incidence, donor return, and the number of donors and donations regained after deferral.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The incidence of BBV infection in donors after a tattoo deferral was zero in both periods. To exceed a residual risk of 1 in 1\u2009million for hepatitis C virus, 190 donors would need to be infected yearly from a tattoo. Donors returned to donate significantly faster after the change (median return 85\u2009days compared with 278\u2009days). An extra 187 donations per 10,000 person\u2010years of observation were gained, yielding a total of 44,674 additional plasma donations nationally 0\u20134\u2009months after getting a tattoo.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Allowing plasma donations immediately post\u2010tattoo resulted in a substantial donation gain with no adverse safety effect. Lifeblood subsequently reduced the deferral for transfusible component donations to 7\u2009days for tattoos in Australian licensed\/regulated establishments.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/vox.13704","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,27]],"date-time":"2024-06-27T00:18:16Z","timestamp":1719447496000},"page":"927-935","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["New tatt? We're ok with that! Relaxing the tattoo deferral for plasmapheresis donors maintains safety and increases donations"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"119","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3840-847X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Claire E.","family":"Styles","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Donor and Product Safety Unit Australian Red Cross Lifeblood  Melbourne Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7827-3661","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Veronica C.","family":"Hoad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Donor and Product Safety Unit Australian Red Cross Lifeblood  Melbourne Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Robert","family":"Harley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Donor and Product Safety Unit Australian Red Cross Lifeblood  Melbourne Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"John","family":"Kaldor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Kirby Institute University of New South Wales  Sydney Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5245-5152","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Iain B.","family":"Gosbell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Donor and Product Safety Unit Australian Red Cross Lifeblood  Melbourne Australia"},{"name":"School of Medicine Western Sydney University  Penrith Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_9_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1159\/000369175"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/jdv.15808"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/trf.17474"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1537-2995.2009.02392.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/voxs.12520"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/vox.13328"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0262990"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/vox.12780"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1537-2995.2009.02145.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/cid\/cir991"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/vox.12832"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1537-2995.2010.02804.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_14_1","volume-title":"R: a language and environment for statistical computing","author":"R Core Team","year":"2022"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_15_1","unstructured":"TherneauTM.A package for survival analysis in R. R package version 3.5\u20105.2023. Available from:https:\/\/CRAN.R-project.org\/package=survival. Last accessed 8 Mar 2024."},{"key":"e_1_2_9_16_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/trf.15421"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_17_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/cid\/ciy979"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_18_1","first-page":"38","article-title":"A series of tattoo\u2010associated Mycobacterium fortuitum infections","volume":"14","author":"Schlesinger TE","year":"2021","journal-title":"J Clin Aesthet Dermatol"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_19_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S1473-3099(22)00652-1"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_20_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11739-022-03090-x"}],"container-title":["Vox Sanguinis"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/vox.13704","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,4]],"date-time":"2024-10-04T03:11:38Z","timestamp":1728011498000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/vox.13704"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,26]]},"references-count":19,"journal-issue":{"issue":"9","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2024,9]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1111\/vox.13704"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/vox.13704","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["0042-9007","1423-0410"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0042-9007","type":"print"},{"value":"1423-0410","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,26]]}}}