Assessment of safety culture in organ donation

Organ donation and transplantation within the Zulu culture.

Greater knowledge and technological advancement in the field of transplantation has increased the demand for organ donation beyond the supply of organs, especially among the black communities. This imbalance arises from the few sources of organs, limitations on the techniques of organ retrieval, disparities in the allocation of organs and socio-cultural factors. The aim of this study was to inv...

Organ donation.

Transplantation is now an established form of treatment for organ failure in childhood. Much has been published on the outcome and management of children with organ transplants, the ethical issues have been widely discussed, and the criteria for the diagnosis of brain death have been established. Most transplanted organs are taken from donors who are brain dead but have a circulation and are be...

Organ Donation Awareness: Rethinking Media Campaigns

Organ donation breakthrough collaborative: increasing organ donation through system redesign.

Virginia McBride and Jade Perdue are public health analysts in the Division of Transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville, Md. Organ donation saves lives. The use of organ transplantation to treat people with end-stage organ failure is both medically effective and cost-effective and is now considered mainstr...

Analysis of Solutions for Developing Resources of Organ Donation; A Donation Card Approach

Nowadays, organ transplant is an inevitable necessity for patients in need who other medical treatments don’t work for them. Nevertheless, it has become one of the major challenges of societies to find transplantable organs in order to bring patients in need back to society and their families. The statistics points out that in the year 2017, despite the issuance of the four million organ donati...