Canada's organ shortage is severe and getting worse.

Cardiology workforce: there's already a shortage, and it's getting worse!

Getting More Organs for Transplantation.

The United States and most other nations suffer from a shortage of human organs for transplant. In the United States, over 120,000 people are on waiting lists for organ transplant and every year over 10,000 people die while waiting (Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network). There are a number of fronts on which research has made progress to address this shortage, but there is still signif...

Challenges of Organ Shortage for Transplantation: Solutions and Opportunities

Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ transplantation today. A variety of approaches have been implemented to expand the organ donor pool including live donation, a national effort to expand deceased donor donation, split organ donation, paired donor exchange, national sharing models and greater utilization of expanded criteria donors. Increased public awareness, im...

International nurse migration to Canada: are we missing the bigger picture?

The report "Tested Solutions for Eliminating Canada's Registered Nursing Shortage" (Tomblin Murphy et al. 2009) projects a nursing shortage in Canada and offers strategies for eliminating that shortage. Using a population needs-based approach, the report estimates that in the year 2007, the shortage of nurses was 11,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) registered nurses. By 2022, the shortage will gr...

Survival after heart transplantation is not diminished among recipients with uncomplicated diabetes mellitus: an analysis of the United Network of Organ Sharing database.

BACKGROUND This study compares posttransplantation outcomes of survival and morbidity among recipients with and without diabetes mellitus (DM). METHODS AND RESULTS The United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) provided deidentified patient-level data. Primary analysis focused on 20,412 first-time heart transplant recipients aged > or = 18 years who underwent transplantation between January 1, 19...