A study on the performance of the Donation Improvement Program in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Donation Improvement Program (DIP) is intended to increase organ donation at hospitals. The program includes education for healthcare professionals of participating hospitals about each step of donation as well as evaluation. The DIP consists of medical record review (MRR) and a Hospital Attitude Survey (HAS). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the DIP results for the last 7 years.

Methods

For MRR, we analyzed 58,385 cases of mortality from 77 hospitals between 2012 and 2018. The HAS data for the degree of education experience, competence, and knowledge related to brain death (BD) and donation were analyzed from 23 DIP-participating hospitals in 2012 and 51 DIP-participating hospitals in 2015 and 2018 each.

Results

The recognition rate of potenti

SUBMITTER: Heo SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9235343 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature