Our Aim
SanguinStats is dedicated to advancing blood supply management through data analysis. Our group, comprised of experts in statistics, mathematics, and epidemiology from ten countries around the world, aims to improve blood supply operations by providing insights into various aspects of the blood supply chain.
Participants
Currently we have participants from:
- Australia
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- Spain
- The Netherlands
- United Kingdom
Ongoing and Potential Future Projects
- Investigating the potential reduction in on-site low-Hb donor deferrals by applying an alternative donor deferral strategy in different blood bank settings. We evaluate a donor deferral strategy similar to the one described in https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17085 where it is argued that the majority of no-site low-Hb deferrals are in fact unwarrented. (Ongoing project)
- Predicting future donor recruitment requirements of blood operators by predicting the yield of the current donor population by modelling historical donor carreers (Foreseen in 2025)
- Evaluation of historical changes in Hb-levels in the general population (Potential future project)
- Predicting Hb-recovery after donation in repeat donors (Potential future project)
Past Projects and Publications
- An evaluation of the performance of Machine Learning Hb-deferral prediction models trained in different blood bank settings, across all of these settings. This work was published in:
- "Predicting haemoglobin deferral using machine learning models: Can we use the same prediction model across countries?". Meulenbeld A, Toivonen J, Vinkenoog M, Brits T, Swanevelder R, de Clippel D, ... & Arvas M. Vox Sanguinis, 2024 119(7):758–763. https://doi.org/10.1111/vox.13643.
- The analysis code is freely available at https://github.com/FRCBS/Hb_predictor_container.
- An evaluation of the performance of various Machine Learning models in predicting donor Hb-deferral in different settings. This work was published in:
- "An international comparison of haemoglobin deferral prediction models for blood banking". Vinkenoog M, Toivonen J, Brits T, de Clippel D, Compernolle V, Karki S, ... & Janssen MP. Vox Sanguinis, 2023 118(6):430-439. https://doi.org/10.1111/vox.13426
- Both the ready-to-use container image (https://hub.docker.com/r/toivoja/hb-predictor) and its source code (https://github.com/FRCBS/Hb_predictor_container) are freely available through Dockerhub and Github respectively.
Contact
The chair and driving force of the SanguinStats group Mart Janssen has, very sadly, passed away. We will continue along the same way that he intended. If you are interested in our work, want to find out more about our group or join our monthly meeting, please feel free to contact .