Erratum: Reassessing the Safety Concerns of Utilizing Blood Donations from Patients with Hemochromatosis

After publication of our manuscript, it came to our attention that the Australian Red Cross does indeed accept blood donations from patient with hemochromatosis (HH). Additionally, rates of transfusion-transmittable infections in donations destined for component manufacture have been found to be significantly lower in therapeutic donations compared to voluntary donations, while bacterial contamination were similar in both cohorts, further emphasizing the safety of blood from HH donors.(1)

Table 1 should be corrected to reflect that the Australian Red Cross does accept donations from therapeutic phlebotomy of HH patients.

The conclusions of this manuscript are not affected by this error.

We regret the oversight in omitting this citation.

1. Hoad V, Bentley P, Bell B, Pathak P, Chan HT, Keller A. The infectious disease blood safety risk of Australian hemochromatosis donations. Transfusion 2016;56:2934-2940. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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