id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-287644-ay0vv27m Blackall, Douglas Rapid Establishment of a COVID‐19 Convalescent Plasma Program in a Regional Healthcare Delivery Network 2020-08-04 .txt text/plain 3764 215 49 Overall, 6 major implementation "themes" were addressed: (1) registration of individual hospitals and principle investigators with a national investigational new drug research protocol, (2) collaboration with a regional blood donor center, (3) targeted recruitment of convalesced donors, (4) information technology issues related to all aspects of CCP ordering, distribution, and transfusion, (5) prioritization of patients to receive CCP, and (6) evaluation of CCP products including antibody characteristics and patient response to therapy. The Mayo IND provides specific criteria for patient inclusion in the protocol; namely, that they have positive molecular testing for SARS-CoV-2, are an adult (≥ 18 years of age), and have met defined clinical criteria qualifying them as having severe or life-threatening COVID-19. randomized controlled study, this protocol provided the infrastructure to initiate a convalescent plasma transfusion program in the SSM-STL network, which is the basis for this report. ./cache/cord-287644-ay0vv27m.txt ./txt/cord-287644-ay0vv27m.txt