| Literature DB >> 24001244 |
Claudia Niza1, Burcu Tung, Theresa M Marteau.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Titmuss hypothesized that paying blood donors would reduce the quality of the blood donated and would be economically inefficient. We report here the first systematic review to test these hypotheses, reporting on both financial and nonfinancial incentives.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24001244 PMCID: PMC3920088 DOI: 10.1037/a0032740
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Health Psychol ISSN: 0278-6133 Impact factor: 4.267
Figure 1Study selection.
Characteristics of Included Studies
| Authors | Country | Participants and setting | Type of donor | Groups | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control group | Incentive group | ||||
| US | Posters and bulletins posted around a US University campus with announcement about time and place of blood donation | Both first-time and previous donors | |||
| US | Blood Centers in San Francisco and Arizona; Outcome second and third donations of first-time donors within 6 months | Previous donors | |||
| Sweden | Regional Blood Centre Gothenburg Sweden; Primary outcome health check for blood donation | First-time donors | |||
| Switzerland | Zurich Blood Donation Service of the Swiss Red Cross; individuals registered in the database invited to donate blood again | Previous donors | |||
| Switzerland | Zurich Blood Donation Service of the Swiss Red Cross | First-time donors | |||
| Switzerland | Zurich Blood Donation Service of the Swiss Red Cross 8269 previous donors | Previous donors | |||
| US | The American Red Cross (ARC) conducted 14,029 blood drives in US northern Ohio between May 2006 and October 2008 | Previous donors | $5 | $5 | |
Figure 2Impact of financial incentives upon likelihood of providing blood.
Assessment of Risk of Bias
| Study | Sequence generation | Allocation concealment | Blinding | Incomplete outcome data | Selective reporting | Other sources of bias |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unclear – “10 female volunteers were instructed to randomly use one of two strategies” p. 792 | Researchers aware of allocation to groups | Only participants blind to allocation | Adequate | Adequate | Adequate “no difference existed between (…) conditions in sex and donation history” | |
| Unclear – “each donor had an equal chance of being randomized into groups” p. 1091 | Recruitment staff aware of allocation to groups | Only participants blind to allocation | Adequate | Adequate | No baseline comparison | |
| Unclear – “participants were randomly allocated into three groups” p. 848 | Unclear | Unclear - participants blinded to allocation | Adequate | Adequate | Adequate | |
| Quasi - cluster randomization per donation center and per day of week | Adequate. Allocation concealed to staff and participants | Adequate. Staff and participants blinded to allocation | Adequate | Adequate | Adequate control of baseline differences | |
| Unclear – “treatments were randomly assigned to mail orders” p. 527 | Unclear | Participants blinded to allocation | Adequate | Adequate | Adequate control of baseline differences | |
| Unclear – “randomly invited” p. 527 | Unclear | Participants blinded to allocation | Adequate | Adequate | Adequate control of baseline differences | |
| Unclear – “randomly selected” p. 17 | Researchers aware of allocation, unclear for staff | Participants blinded to allocation | Adequate | Adequate | Adequate control of baseline differences |
| MEDLINE | EMBASE | PsycInfo | CINAHL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial incentives | Monetary incentive | Incentives | Incentives (su) | Physician incentive plans (su) |
| Financial incentive | Monetary incentive* | Monetary incentives (su) | Incentive* | |
| Reimbursement, incentive (su) | Financial incentive* | Financial incentive (kw) | Finance* | |
| Physician incentive plans (su) | Rewards (su) | Rewards (su) | Monetary* | |
| Incentive* | Incentive* | Monetary rewards (su) | Lottery | |
| Reward (su) | Cash | Rewards (kw) | Cash | |
| Monetary* | Monetary* | Cash (kw) | Reward | |
| Cash | Lottery | Monetary* (kw) | Reward (su) | |
| Lottery | Compensation (su) | Lottery (kw) | Compensation | |
| Compensa* | Compensation | Compensation (kw) | Pay* | |
| Pay* | Lottery | Pay* | Sell* | |
| Sell* | Pay* | Sell* | Remunera* | |
| Financ* | Sell* | Finance* | ||
| Remunera* | Remunera* | Remunera* | ||
| Blood | Blood donors (su) | Blood don* | Blood don* | Blood for money |
| Blood don* | Morey for blood | Blood trans* | Paid blood donation | |
| Paid blood* | Paid blood donation | Money for blood | Blood don* | |
| Money for blood | Blood donation | Paid blood donation | Blood donors (su) | |
| Blood tansfusion (su) | Blood donor su | Blood transufion (su) | ||
| Exchange transfusion (su) | ||||
| Whole blood (su) |