Reference

2009

AABB 2009 Annual Meeting (October 2009)

• Internet Donor Interviews. L McWilliams, P S Abrams, P D Cumming
• Internet Hosted Donor Screening. D E Chavez, P S Abrams, P D Cumming

2008

AABB 2008 Annual Meeting (October 2008)

• Automated & Manual Methods of Donor Interviewing. P D Cumming, B Koski; P S Abrams, E L Wallace
• Comparison of Online Malaria Risk Tools. P S Abrams
• Donor and Staff Satisfaction with Manual and Automated Donor Screening. P D Cumming, P Abrams, E Wallace, D Prete

2007

AABB 2007 Annual Meeting (October 2007)

• Causes of Increased Donor Deferral Rates in a Mid-Western Blood Center: 2004 to 2006. P D Cumming, J C Johnston, P S Abrams, P Sullivan and L A Holdorf
• An Interactive Map of Malarial Areas. P S Abrams and P D Cumming
• Reducing Post Donation Information Reports via Multimedia Donor Interviewing and a  Streamlined Questionnaire. P D Cumming, P S Abrams, L M Katz and P Sullivan

Exempla Healthcare Press Release (September 4, 2007)

Rock River Valley Blood Center Press Release (August 15, 2007)

Internet QDS 510(k) Press Release (July 30, 2007)

Virginia Blood Services Press Release (April 23, 2007)

Computer-Based Blood Donor Screening: A Status Report. Louis M. Katz, Paul D. Cumming, and Edward L. Wallace. Transfusion Medicine Reviews, Vol 21, No 1 (January), 2007: pp 13-25

2006

Talisman Receives Tibbetts Award

Talisman Phlebotomy System 510(k) Press Release (August 21, 2006)

AABB 2006 Annual Meeting (October 2006)

• Determinants of Donor Satisfaction Using an Audiovisual Touch-Screen Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (AVT) System. JC Johnston and others (Presentation)
• Region Scale Impacts of an Audiovisual Touch-Screen Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (AVT) System. PD Cumming, JC Johnston and others (Presentation)

Nomination for Tibbetts Award. (July 15, 2006) [Large file: 3.7 MB]

2005

AABB 2005 Annual Meeting (October 2005)

• AABB UDHQ: New versus Old. LM Katz and others. (Presentation)

• Internet Donor Health History Interviewing. LM Katz and others (Poster Session SP201)

Press Release - Automated Donor Screening Awarded 3 Year Expansion by NHLBI (October 4, 2005)

Audiovisual touch-screen computer-assisted self-interviewing for donor health histories: results from two years experience with the system. Katz LM, Cumming PD, Wallace EL, Abrams PS. Electronic version of an article published in TRANSFUSION 2005;45:171-180. Posted with permission of Blackwell-Synergy.

Extracts from editorial in TRANSFUSION 2005;45:128-129

Presentation to PPTA 2005 Plasma Protein Forum. Paul Cumming, June 8, 2005

Donors More Likely to be Candid with Touch-Screen Interviewing, Study Finds, ABC Newsletter, April 22, 2005

2004

AABB 2004 Annual Meeting (October 2004)

• Automated Donor Interviewing: First Results from Replication & Expansion Studies. PD Cumming and others (Poster Session SP163) Supplemental material

• TXPO Booth Slide Show

2003

AABB 2003 Annual Meeting Posters & Presentation (November 2003)

• Automated Donor Screening: Two year Results Presentation. LM Katz and others (S31-030F)

• Audio (AVT-CASI) versus Manual Implementation of New Questions. LE Gerber and others. (AP63) Click here to see a sample output file
• Automating Donor Deferral Decisions. EL Wallace and others (SP99)
• Aberrant Responses on Donor Interviews. LM Katz and others (SP101)

Press release West Tennessee RBC Implements QDS (April 9, 2003)

Presentations by LM Katz, MD, Medical Director Mississippi Valley RBC

• Automated Blood Donor Screening: A Status Report. Louis M. Katz, MD, the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. Presentation at America's Blood Centers annual meeting Feb. 24, 2003
• Automated interviewing of volunteer blood donors: where are we? Louis M. Katz, MD, Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. Presentation at meetings on FDA and the Changing Paradigm for Blood Regulation. January 2003.

2002

• Audio-Visual, Touch Screen, Computer Assisted Self-Interview (AVT-CASI): First Year Results. Louis M. Katz M.D. and Laurie Rogenski R.N., Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. Paul Cumming Ph.D., Talisman Ltd. Slides from American Association of Blood Banks Donor Recruitment (020A) Session, 10/27/2002, 2:00 - 3:00 PM, Orange County Convention Center, 414A.
• Summary of Literature on Alternative Methods of Donor Interviewing. Paul D. Cumming, PHD, Talisman Limited & Louis M. Katz, MD, Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. Slides from presentation to Blood Products Advisory Committee, US Food & Drug Administration, September 12, 2002.
• Summary of Literature on Alternative Methods of Donor Interviewing, PD Cumming & LM Katz, Talisman Limited and Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, respectively, August 29, 2002, submitted to the Executive Secretary of the US Food & Drug Administration Blood Products Advisory Committee for distribution to members in advance of the September 12, 2002 meeting on “self-administration of the uniform donor history questionnaire: first time donors.”
  • Transmittal Letter
• "Audio-Video Computer Assisted Self Interview (AV-CASI) of Blood Donors" Presentation made to the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research sponsored "Workshop on Best Practices for Reducing Transfusion Errors" at the Nation Institutes of Health Natcher Conference Center on February 15, 2002 by Laurie Rogenski, RN of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center. Co-authors include Louis M. Katz, MD, of Mississippi Valley and Talisman Limited staff Paul D. Cumming, PhD, Eniko Ossman, Rachna Arora and Philip Abrams, PhD.

2001

• Computer-assisted audiovisual health history self-interviewing: Results of the pilot study of the Hoxworth Quality Donor System. Zuck TF, Cumming PD, Wallace EL. TRANSFUSION, Vol. 41, No. 12, 1469-1474, December 2001. Posted with permission of Blackwell Synergy.
• Report to NHLBI on October 2001 AABB presentations including a summary. 
  • AABB October 2001 Presentation: "Audio-Video Computer Assisted Self Interview (AV-CASI) of Blood Donors". by L Rogenski, P Cumming & L Katz
  • AABB October 2001 Presentation Summary: AV-CASI Abstract from "Impact of Current Screening Practices" by C Bianco.
• Selected comments by Mississippi Valley blood donors during recent formal surveys of reactions to Talisman's computer-assisted audio-video health history interviewing system
• Report entitled "Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, Quality Donor System™ (QDS) S2.1, AABB Uniform Donor History Questionnaire" to NHLBI August 28, 2001.

1999

• Presentation with audio entitled "Computer Assisted Audio-Video Versus Traditional Blood Donor Screening: Initial Results" by Thomas F. Zuck, MD, Chief Executive Officer of the Hoxworth Blood Center, and others at the 1999 American Association of Blood Banks Annual Meetings November 9, 1999.  (File size: 3.9MB)
  • Or click here to download the presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint™ format without audio

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