Table 2 Applicable WMDA Standards (2024) [4].

WMDA Standard 3.10

Donors must be counselled when selected for further tests and when selected as a donor for a specific patient.

WMDA Standard 3.22

Donor health requirements regarding the suitability of donors must be established.

WMDA Standard 6.02.3

The registry/cord blood bank must have a policy for reserving a donor/cord blood unit when requested for a specific patient.

WMDA Standard 6.02.5

The registry should make their policy for accepting requests for a backup donor for a specific patient at the workup stage readily accessible to the relevant healthcare professionals.

WMDA Standard 6.02.5.1

Registries requesting donors for workup should ensure that a policy is in place describing if and under which circumstances a backup donor can be requested in addition to the primary donor.

WMDA Standard 6.04.1

All specimens requested by the transplant centre for verification HLA typing of the donor or cord blood unit should be tested accordingly and results provided to the donor registry in a timely manner. If not tested, the transplant centre should inform the donor registry as to the status of that donor/unit request.

WMDA Standard 6.05

The HLA typing of the adult donor (or cord blood unit) and the potential recipient should be at high resolution and include sufficient loci to allow the evaluation of the pair matching appropriate for the clinical application. This HLA typing should be available prior to requesting a specific donor for workup and at the latest must be available before the donor begins mobilisation or proceeds to collection, or the patient begins with the preparative regimen, whichever is earliest. Cord blood unit typing results must be available prior to shipment for a specific patient.