Donor audits in deceased organ donation: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We sought to collate and summarize existing literature on donor audits (DA) and how they have been used to guide deceased organ donation and transplantation system performance and quality assurance.

Source

We searched MEDLINE, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and Web of Science supplemented by Google to identify grey literature on 6 May 2022, to locate studies in English, French, and Spanish. The data were screened, extracted, and analyzed independently by two reviewers. We grouped the results into five categories: 1) motivation for DA, 2) DA methodology, 3) potential and actual donors, 4) missed donation opportunities, and 5) quality improvement.

Principal findings

The search yielded 2,416 unique publications and 52 were included in t

SUBMITTER: Silva A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10858122 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature