Our Research Publications

Updated August 2025

Title Authors Year Journal Link to Article Intended Audience Purpose
Déclaration du CCN concernant le génotypage du RHD chez les patientes enceintes Pavenski K, Khandelwal A, Clarke G, Lane D 2022 National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Bacterial contamination of platelet components Ramirez-Arcos S, McDonald C, ISBT Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Disease Bacterial Working Party Bacterial Subgroup 2022 Ann Blood View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
Behaviour based screening questions and potential donation loss using the “for the assessment of individualised risk” screening criteria: A Canadian perspective Caffrey N, Goldman M, Lewin A, Osmond L, O'Brien SF 2022 Transfus Med View Researchers MSM research
Screening for high-risk sexual behavior in Canada Goldman M, Caffrey N, O'Brien SF 2022 Transfusion View Blood operators Clinical research
FAQ: Whole blood, leukocytes reduced (LrWB) at Canadian Blood Services Mack J 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers New or improved product or process
T cell-mediated autoimmunity in immune thrombocytopenia Vrbensky JR, Nazy I, Clare R, Larché M, Arnold DM 2022 Eur J Haematol View Researchers Clinical research
Circulaire d'information utilisation de composants sanguins humains: Cellules progénitrices hématopiétiques de sang de cordon omilical Stewart T 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Implementation of a blood bank generated tube for second blood group determination: Challenges, yield, and cost Obaidallah N, Downie H, Colavecchia C, Callum J, Lin Y 2022 Transfusion View Health care providers New or improved product or process
Impact of cardiopulmonary bypass duration on efficacy of fibrinogen replacement with cryoprecipitate compared with fibrinogen concentrate: a <em>post hoc</em> analysis of the Fibrinogen Replenishment in Surgery (FIBRES) randomised controlled trial Bartoszko J, Martinez-Perez S, Callum J, Karkouti K, Farouh ME, Scales DC, Heddle NM, Crowther M, Rao V, Hucke H-P, Carroll J, Grewal D, Brar S, Brussières J, Grocott H, Harle C, Pavenski K, Rochon A, Saha T, Shepherd L, Syed S, Tran D, Wong D, Zeller M 2022 Br J Anaesth View Researchers Clinical research
Evaluation of the performance of multiple immunoassay diagnostic platforms on the National Microbiology Laboratory SARS-CoV-2 National Serology Panel Dibernardo A, Toledo NP, Robinson A, Osiowy C, Giles E, Day J, Lindsay LR, Drebot MA, Booth TF, Pidduck T, Baily A, Charlton CL, Tipples G, Kanji JN, Brochu G, Lang A, Therrien C, Bélanger-Collard M, Beaulac S-N, Gilfix BM, Boivin G, Hamelin M-È, Carbonneau J, Lévesque S, Martin P, Finzi A, Gendron-Lepage G, Goyette G, Benlarbi M, Gasser R, Fortin C, Martel-Lafferrière V, Lavoie M, Guérin R, Haraoui L-P, Renaud C, Jenkins C, O'Brien SF, Drews SJ, Conrod V, Tran V, Awrey B, Scheuermann R, DuPuis A, Payne A, Warszycki C, Girardin R, Lee W, Zahariadis G, Jiao L, Needle R, Cordenbach J, Zaharatos J, Taylor K, Teltscher M, Miller M, Elsherif M, Robertson P, Robinson JL 2022 J Assoc Med Microbiol Infect Dis Can View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
The bending rigidity of the red blood cell cytoplasmic membrane Himbert S, D’Alessandro A, Qadri SM, Majcher MJ, Hoare T, Sheffield WP, Nagao M, Nagle JF, Rheinstädter MC 2022 PLoS One View Researchers Basic research
FAQ: Information for health professionals on pathogen-reduced platelets Ning S, Tordon B, Zeller M, Anani W 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers New or improved product or process
Whole blood donor return rates after deferral for tattooing or body piercing—Survey across blood donation services: The BEST collaborative study Quee F, O'Brien SF, Prinsze F, Steele WR, Grégoire Y, Cutajar A, Wendel S, Compernolle V, Goldman M, van den Hurk K, Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative 2022 Vox Sang View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
Sommaire des réactions transfusionnelles indésirables Yan M 2022 Blood.ca website View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
Circular of information for the use of human blood components: Platelets Stewart T 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Persistently elevated complement alternative pathway biomarkers in COVID-19 correlate with hypoxemia and predict in-hospital mortality Leatherdale A, Stukas S, Lei V, West HE, Campbell CJ, Hoiland RL, Cooper J, Wellington CL, Sekhon MS, Pryzdial ELG, Conway EM 2022 Med Microbiol Immunol View Health care providers Clinical research
In Vitro Effect of Methamphetamine on Proliferation, Differentiation and Apoptosis of Adipose Tissue Stem Cells: In vitro Effect of Methamphetamine Anari L, Mehrabani D, Nasiri M, Zare S, Jamhiri I, Acker J 2022 J Pharm Sci View Researchers Basic research
Characterization of CD41(+) cells in the lymph node Dai L, Uehara M, Li X, LaBarre BA, Banouni N, Ichimura T, Lee-Sundlov MM, Kasinath V, Sullivan JA, Ni H, Barone F, Giannini S, Bahmani B, Sage PT, Patsopoulos NA, Tsokos GC, Bromberg JS, Hoffmeister K, Jiang L, Abdi R 2022 Front Immunol View Researchers Basic research
Chapter 10. Transfusion reactions Laureano M, Khandelwal A, Yan M 2022 Clinical Guide to Transfusion View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia after COVID-19 vaccination: Description of a series of 39 cases in Brazil Mouta Nunes de Oliveira P, Mendes-de-Almeida DP, Bertollo Gomes Porto V, Crespo Cordeiro C, Vitiello Teixeira G, Saraiva Pedro R, Roberto Gomes Takey P, Kegele Lignani L, Reis Xavier J, Cardoso Doria da Gama V, Amorim Filho L, Emoingt Furtado B, Santa Maria A, Dahrug Barros T, Neves Waite Freitas L, Dos Santos Pereira T, Lima Abreu D, Bernardes Ramos M, Gabe C, Arnold D, William Smith J, Nazy I, Lourdes de Sousa Maia M 2022 Vaccine View Health care providers Clinical research
Chapter 17. Troubles de l’hémostase et angiœdème héréditaire Poon MC, Goodyear D, Rydz N, Lee A 2022 Guide de la pratique transfusionnelle View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Pathogen-reduced buffy coat platelets Blais-Normandin I, Tordon B, Anani W 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Early and out-of-hospital use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma: An international assessment of utilization and feasibility Al-Riyami AZ, Estcourt L, Rahimi-Levene N, Bloch EM, Goel R, Tiberghien P, Thibert J-B, Bruun MT, Devine DV, Gammon RR, Wendel S, Toungouz Nevessignsky M, Grubovic Rastvorceva RM, Oreh A, Romon I, van den Berg K, Kitazawa J, Patidar G, So-Osman C, Wood EM, the ISBT COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Working Group 2022 Vox Sang View Health care providers Clinical research
von Willebrand factor propeptide variants lead to impaired storage and ER retention in patient-derived endothelial colony-forming cells Bowman M, Casey L, Selvam SN, Lima PDA, Rawley O, Hinds M, Tuttle A, Grabell J, Iorio A, Walker I, Lillicrap D, James P 2022 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers Basic research
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia: Updates in pathobiology and diagnosis Jevtic SD, Arnold DM, Modi D, Ivetic N, Bissola AL, Nazy I 2022 Front Cardiovasc Med View Health care providers Clinical research
Accuracy of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision Codes for Identifying Sepsis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Liu B, Hadzi-Tosev M, Liu Y, Lucier KJ, Garg A, Li S, Heddle NM, Rochwerg B, Ning S 2022 Crit Care Explor View Health care providers Clinical research
A Primer on Biostatistics Shih AW, Li N, Montemayor C, Heddle NM 2022 Practical Transfusion Medicine View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Rejuvenated and safe: Freeze-dried plasma for the 21st century Sheffield WP, V. Devine D 2022 Transfusion View Health care providers New or improved product or process
Sexual issues in people with haemophilia: Awareness and strategies for overcoming communication barriers Blamey G, Van Tassel B, Sagermann E, Stain AM, Waterhouse L, Iorio A 2022 Haemophilia View Researchers Ethical, legal and social implications research
Clinical Practice Guidelines From the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB): COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Estcourt LJ, Cohn CS, Pagano MB, Iannizzi C, Kreuzberger N, Skoetz N, Allen ES, Bloch EM, Beaudoin G, Casadevall A, Devine DV, Foroutan F, Gniadek TJ, Goel R, Gorlin J, Grossman BJ, Joyner MJ, Metcalf RA, Raval JS, Rice TW, Shaz BH, Vassallo RR, Winters JL, Tobian AAR 2022 Ann Intern Med View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Concentré de recherche: Des questions de sélection fondées sur le comportement sexuel?: comprendre et atténuer le?malaise des donneurs Woo H 2022 Blood.ca website View Blood operators MSM research
How do we decide how representative our donors are for public health surveillance? O'Brien SF, Drews SJ, Lewin A, Russell A, Davison K, Goldman M, International Society for Blood Transfusion Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Disease Working Party Surveillance Risk Assessment Policy Sub-group 2022 Transfusion View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
GRADE guidance 35: update on rating imprecision for assessing contextualized certainty of evidence and making decisions Schünemann HJ, Neumann I, Hultcrantz M, Brignardello-Petersen R, Zeng L, Murad MH, Izcovich A, Morgano GP, Baldeh T, Santesso N, Cuello CG, Mbuagbaw L, Guyatt G, Wiercioch W, Piggott T, De Beer H, Vinceti M, Mathioudakis AG, Mayer MG, Mustafa R, Filippini T, Iorio A, Nieuwlaat R, Marcucci M, Coello PA, Bonovas S, Piovani D, Tomlinson G, Akl EA 2022 J Clin Epidemiol View Researchers Clinical research
Cold-stored platelets are effective in an in vitro model of massive transfusion protocol assessed by rotational thromboelastometry Zhao HQ, Serrano K, Culibrk B, Chen Z, Devine DV 2022 Transfusion View Researchers New or improved product or process
User-Centered Development and Testing of the Online Patient-Reported Outcomes, Burdens, and Experiences (PROBE) Survey and the myPROBE App and Integration With the Canadian Bleeding Disorder Registry: Mixed Methods Study Germini F, Borg Debono V, Page D, Zuk V, Kucher A, Cotoi C, Hobson N, Sevestre M, Skinner MW, Iorio A 2022 JMIR Hum Factors View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
Heparin or nonheparin anticoagulants for VITT Arnold DM 2022 Blood View Health care providers Clinical research
A personalized limited sampling approach to better estimate terminal half-life of FVIII concentrates Chelle P, Iorio A, Edginton AN 2022 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers Basic research
Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 Viral Neutralizing Antibody Titers with Anti-Spike Antibodies and ACE-2 Inhibition among Vaccinated Individuals Grunau B, Prusinkiewicz M, Asamoah-Boaheng M, Golding L, Lavoie PM, Petric M, Levett PN, Haig S, Barakauskas V, Karim ME, Jassem AN, Drews SJ, Sediqi S, Goldfarb DM 2022 Microbiol Spectr View Researchers Clinical research
Use of Irradiated Red Blood Cell Transfusions in Newborns to Improve Intracerebral Saturation Kirpalani HM, Prokopchuk-Gauk O, Heddle NM 2022 JAMA Pediatr View Health care providers New or improved product or process
Freeze-dried plasma: From damage control resuscitation to coronavirus disease 2019 therapy Peng HT, Rhind SG, Moes K, Devine D, Jenkins C, Beckett A 2022 Transfusion View Health care providers New or improved product or process
Frequency and utility of bone marrow examination in relapsed/refractory immune thrombocytopenia Taparia K, Wall E, Arnold DM, Sun HL 2022 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers Clinical research
Assessment of bacterial growth in leukoreduced cold-stored whole blood supports overnight hold at room temperature prior to filtration: A pilot study Ramirez-Arcos S, Kou Y, Kumaran D, Culibrk B, Stewart T, Schubert P, McTaggart K 2022 Vox Sang View Researchers New or improved product or process
Heterogeneity of Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccination and Safety of Second Vaccination with BNT162b2 Lindhoff-Last E, Schoenborn L, Piorkowski M, Herold J, Greinacher A, Sheppard JA, Warkentin TE 2022 Thromb Haemost View Researchers Clinical research
Blood unit segments accurately represent the biophysical properties of red blood cells in blood bags but not hemolysis Islamzada E, Matthews K, Lamoureux E, Duffy SP, Scott MD, Ma H 2022 Transfusion View Researchers Basic research
Donor-recipient sex is associated with transfusion-related outcomes in critically ill patients Alshalani A, Uhel F, Cremer OL, Schultz MJ, de Vooght KMK, van Bruggen R, Acker JP, Juffermans NP, on behalf of the MARS Consortium 2022 Blood Adv View Researchers Clinical research
Blood Donation Testing and the Safety of the Blood Supply Goldman M, Drews SJ 2022 Practical Transfusion Medicine View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
FAQ: Canadian Blood Services platelet bacterial screening Khandelwal A, Ramirez-Arcos S, Bigham M 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
FAQ : Le sang total déleucocyté à la Société canadienne du sang Mack J 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers New or improved product or process
A Portrait of Cord Blood Units Distributed for Transplantation from Canadian Blood Services&rsquo; Cord Blood Bank: First Analysis Parmar G, Green M, Mostert K, Lawless T, Dibdin N, Weiss J, Ganz K, Petraszko T, Seftel MD, Allan DS 2022 Curr Oncol View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
Circulaire d'information utilisation de composants sanguins humains: Sang total Stewart T 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting