Prediction of national blood demand and supply (PREDICT study)

The second evaluation of the Dutch Blood Supply Act (ZONMW) concluded that demographic changes could affect demand and supply. The Executive Board of Sanquin asked TTA to identify relevant parameters in the PROTON dataset. The PREDICT study reported on PROTON and Sanquin data and demographics of CBS. Based on demographic changes alone, an increase of RBC demand over 2008 to 2015 was expected. However modeling both demographics and trends in clinical RBC use predicted a decrease of RBC demand by 8%. Such predictions are envisioned to be repeated regularly with DANOPTRA datasets.