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  • Title: Texas non-donor-hospital project: a program to increase organ donation in community and rural hospitals.
    Author: Shafer TJ, Durand R, Hueneke MJ, Wolff WS, Davis KD, Ehrle RN, Van Buren CT, Orlowski JP, Reyes DH, Gruenenfelder RT, White CK.
    Journal: J Transpl Coord; 1998 Sep; 8(3):146-52. PubMed ID: 9866543.
    Abstract:
    Identifying and recovering donors from community and rural hospitals present a challenge to organ procurement organizations. A study of non-donor hospitals in the United States was undertaken at Johns Hopkins University, which identified 31 hospitals (in one service area) with the facilities to accommodate organ donation, though an organ donor had not been produced in 3 years. The purpose of this study was to determine whether donors could be produced from these hospitals. A large, geographically dispersed OPO initiated a program consisting of (1) in-house coordinators, and (2) routine notification of all hospital deaths. Following implementation of this program, organ donation increased 387% among the targeted 25 hospitals. The number of hospitals producing at least 1 organ donor increased 133%. The number of organs recovered in the project increased 449%. In-house coordinators, by identifying potential donors and facilitating an organ donor awareness program, can increase the number of organ donors in hospitals with low, but real, donor potential.
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