Canadian organ donation organizations' donor audit processes: an environmental scan.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Deceased donor audits (DAs) allow organ donation and transplantation systems to measure and analyze missed donation opportunities (MDOs). Missed donation opportunities can harm both patients/families denied the opportunity to donate and patients on transplant waitlists denied access to lifesaving organs. In Canada, there are no national standards for DAs, data analysis, nor accountability processes surrounding MDOs. Understanding DA current practice in each jurisdicton would facilitate developing a national strategy for DAs.

Method

All provincial organ donation organizations (ODOs) were invited to participate in an environmental scan (ES) of current DA practices. The two ES phases were an electronic survey followed by semistructured interviews. We collected informati

SUBMITTER: Zavalkoff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10656310 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature