Stability of Organ Donor Designations on Driver's Licenses

Do Spiritual Well-Being and Demographic Characteristics Influence the Decision on Being an Organ Donor?

Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of spiritual well-being and demographic characteristics in signing the donor card. Instrument & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Hamadan in 2018. Six hundred employees from 57 offices (out of 60) were selected using a random sampling method. Data gathering was carried out using a self-administered questionnaire. Th...

Donor Organ Allocation

Purpose. Compare renal transplant long-term outcomes among recipients aged 60 years or older with those in younger patients. Patients and methods. We analyzed 103 transplants in recipients above 60 years of age for the influence of key factors related to the graft and patient. The results were compared with 1060 transplant recipients aged 18 to 59 years. Results. The mean ages were 62.93 and 40...

Organ donor management in Canada: recommendations of the forum on Medical Management to Optimize Donor Organ Potential.

Council for Donation and Transplantation (CCDT) sponsored a forum entitled " Medical Management to Optimize Donor Organ Potential, " 23–25 Feb. 2004, to develop guidelines and recommendations for organ donor management in Canada. Discussions were restricted to the interval of care that begins with neurological determination of death (NDD), commonly called " brain death, " and consent to organ d...

Donor Organ Management: Literature Review

Potential Organ-Donor Supply and Efficiency of Organ Procurement Organizations

The authors estimated the supply of organ donors in the U.S. and also according to organ procurement organizations (OPOs). They estimated the number of donors in the U.S. to be 16,796. Estimates of the number of potential donors for each OPO were used to calculate the level of donor efficiency (actual donors as a percent of potential donors). Overall, donor efficiency for OPOs was 35 percent; t...