The Geographical Disease Risk Index is a constituent part of Chapter 3 Care and selection of whole blood and component donors (including donors of pre-deposit autologous blood) Chapter 20 (Tissue banking: selection of donors) and Chapter 22 (Haemopoietic progenitor cells) of the Guidelines for the Blood Transfusion Services in the United Kingdom, 8th Edition, 2013.
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This section was last updated in GDRI Edition 001, Release 21 Issue 2